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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The public is invited to a free artist’s reception on Saturday, Aug. 14, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Weaver Auditorium at the Lower Lake Historic Schoolhouse Museum, 16435 Main St., Lower Lake.
Attendees can meet the artists at the reception and view demonstrations of weaving and spinning. Light refreshments will be served.
The Lower Lake Historic School Preservation Committee will host the 17th annual Quilt and Textile Exhibition which runs from Aug. 7 through 28.
Featured artists will include members of the Clear Lake Quilt Guild and Ladies of the Lake Quilt Guild; renowned, internationally acclaimed weaver Sheila O'Hara and her students; and members of the Sheep Thrills Spinning and Weaving Guild.
Works include quilts, weavings, tapestries, clothing and other fiber art items, in soft and subtle pastels to bold colors and textures.
Both the exhibit and reception are free.
For further information, call Dwain Goforth at the museum, 707-995-3565,
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Marilyn Kallet lives and teaches in Tennessee. Over the years I have read many poems about fireflies, but of all of them hers seems to offer the most and dearest peace.
Fireflies
In the dry summer field at nightfall,
fireflies rise like sparks.
Imagine the presence of ghosts
flickering, the ghosts of young friends,
your father nearest in the distance.
This time they carry no sorrow,
no remorse, their presence is so light.
Childhood comes to you,
memories of your street in lamplight,
holding those last moments before bed,
capturing lightning-bugs,
with a blossom of the hand
letting them go. Lightness returns,
an airy motion over the ground
you remember from Ring Around the Rosie.
If you stay, the fireflies become fireflies
again, not part of your stories,
as unaware of you as sleep, being
beautiful and quiet all around you.
Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org),
publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2009 by Donal Heffernan, whose most recent book of poetry is
“Duets of Motion,” Lone Oak Press, 2001. Poem reprinted by permission of Donal Heffernan.
Introduction copyright ©2010 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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