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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:36:14 -0500
Many thanks to Adele Geras, for her recent eloquent tribute and her wise insights laced with a profound understanding of literary and human history. Please thank her for us all, Jonathan. Perhaps some of you want to respond to her comments, and if you do, please go ahead. We're all ears. (Is that possible on e-mail? All eyes? Whatever...)
We want our friends and colleagues in the Washington, D.C., area to know we are thinking of them, too, even though most of the specific CCBC-Net commentary has been about the catastrophes in NYC. My daughter is on the faculty of American University's Law School, so I've heard plenty about what it's been like work and live near the destruction at the Pentagon; to learn later that the plane flown into the Pentagon had circled the city first; and to find out afterwards that a second plane had been headed for the Capitol. We haven't forgotten about what it must have been like to be in Arlington, and Baltimore, and all of the areas in and near the nation's capitol. Our thoughts are with you, as they are with everyone else everywhere who was affected and still is affected.
On Sunday the community of faith of which I'm a member was fortunate to have the leadership of Rev. Winton Boyd. Prior to talking with the adults, Winton invited young children to come forward and sit near him on the floor. He asked: what do you do when you play? Not with Nintendos. Watching TV didn't count. What did they do when they actually play? Oh, they talked eagerly about playing with balls and dolls (that included one resolute boy, by the way), and they play with pets. Winton asked them if they noticed last week that their parents/adults were not playing much, that they were probably glued to the TV most of the time. Yes, they'd noticed. He asked if - during the coming week - they would invite their grownups to play with them. Urge them get away from the TV, and play. With them. Could they do this? You bet, they could, and they would. Playing. Being reminded to play.
We've each learned a lot about ourselves as individuals and as a nation during the past week. As we move through the week, we'll hope to remember to play. We know we'll continue to tell our stories and to hear the stories of others. One of the most chilling stories came from Jenni Holm who wrote to say that she and her husband have had the responsibility of registering the death of their friend who was in the WTC - and to say she's welcomes messages about sports books. Guess our September CCBC-Net subject of books about Sports will turn out to be OK, too, after all.
Cheers, and Peace... - Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Tue 18 Sep 2001 06:36:14 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:36:14 -0500
Many thanks to Adele Geras, for her recent eloquent tribute and her wise insights laced with a profound understanding of literary and human history. Please thank her for us all, Jonathan. Perhaps some of you want to respond to her comments, and if you do, please go ahead. We're all ears. (Is that possible on e-mail? All eyes? Whatever...)
We want our friends and colleagues in the Washington, D.C., area to know we are thinking of them, too, even though most of the specific CCBC-Net commentary has been about the catastrophes in NYC. My daughter is on the faculty of American University's Law School, so I've heard plenty about what it's been like work and live near the destruction at the Pentagon; to learn later that the plane flown into the Pentagon had circled the city first; and to find out afterwards that a second plane had been headed for the Capitol. We haven't forgotten about what it must have been like to be in Arlington, and Baltimore, and all of the areas in and near the nation's capitol. Our thoughts are with you, as they are with everyone else everywhere who was affected and still is affected.
On Sunday the community of faith of which I'm a member was fortunate to have the leadership of Rev. Winton Boyd. Prior to talking with the adults, Winton invited young children to come forward and sit near him on the floor. He asked: what do you do when you play? Not with Nintendos. Watching TV didn't count. What did they do when they actually play? Oh, they talked eagerly about playing with balls and dolls (that included one resolute boy, by the way), and they play with pets. Winton asked them if they noticed last week that their parents/adults were not playing much, that they were probably glued to the TV most of the time. Yes, they'd noticed. He asked if - during the coming week - they would invite their grownups to play with them. Urge them get away from the TV, and play. With them. Could they do this? You bet, they could, and they would. Playing. Being reminded to play.
We've each learned a lot about ourselves as individuals and as a nation during the past week. As we move through the week, we'll hope to remember to play. We know we'll continue to tell our stories and to hear the stories of others. One of the most chilling stories came from Jenni Holm who wrote to say that she and her husband have had the responsibility of registering the death of their friend who was in the WTC - and to say she's welcomes messages about sports books. Guess our September CCBC-Net subject of books about Sports will turn out to be OK, too, after all.
Cheers, and Peace... - Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Tue 18 Sep 2001 06:36:14 PM CDT
