The Holiday Keeper: Never Stop to Think... Do I Have A Place For This?

Time to start thinking about what to get for those we love. 

The book at the top of the list: Never Stop to Think...Do I Have A Place For This? 

Mary Randolph Carter continues to show us how to live with what we love, and rejoice in it. How to share- with panache- the memories: how to make room for new ones. How to honor the past and delight in the present. 

Illuminating each space in her inimitable way, the author guides the reader through extraordinary dwellings and collections that fire the imagination. 

A book to be adored, thumbed through incessantly, and referred to often. A holiday keeper.

MARY RANDOLPH CARTER: NEVER STOP TO THINK...DO I HAVE A PLACE FOR THIS?

PHOTOS: CARTER BERG

Roman Vishniac

A few years ago...could it have been ten? Yes. I think so... this book came into our house. The children in it are impossible to forget. It's a lovely book. Mara Vishniac Kohn points out, in the introduction, that the fate of the pictures -- and the photographer -- was, in mid-1930's, darkly uncertain. "What would happen to a Jewish photographer of Latvian nationality living in Berlin, who had surreptitiously taken thousands of pictures of struggling groups of East European Jews?" I suppose it's a small miracle that, at least, many of the negatives were saved. "In this book," Kohn wrote, "we want to remember the children Roman loved, the children of 'a vanished world.' Their images are surrounded with the songs and rhymes that made them smile... We think of them, we assure them of our love, and we cherish their memory."

Roman Vishniac, Children of a Vanished World. University of California Press.

golden

pollock's:

perfect!

The Christmas Number

St. Nicholas

Illustrated Magazine

for Boys and Girls

[about St. Nicholas? here]

creative grief

"That wanting is ever the crux of the matter."

Sister Wendy