And now, as I read Steven Johnson\u2019s Where Good Ideas Come From<\/strong>, I know what I was doing, always a good thing.\u00a0 I was cultivating the \u201cslow hunch\u201d within a \u201cliquid network\u201c of idea connectors and critics, both necessary characteristics of a good idea – which having the Irish on these shores before the Vikings clearly is. I love this book, and I am only on the third of, I think, seven factors.<\/p>\n Liquid networks of seaside friends may lead to best ideas ever.<\/p><\/div>\n With March temps in the 50\u2019s promising spring but not soon enough, news of Tenants Harbor — well greater TH — is ever more welcome, as a Roseledge Books Founding Spirit understood when he forwarded this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also local and noteworthy, the Herring Gut Learning Center newsletter (Herring Gut Learning Center’s News) is looking for suggested names, even as it announces and reports on new programs. Ann Boover\u2019s work makes me think a Maine or even a coastal Maine equivalent of Leanne Shapton\u2019s The Native Trees of Canada <\/strong>could be coming. Or maybe a local birds-with-drawings effort? The drawing of the flora in situ<\/em> in Diane Smith\u2019s Letters from Yellowstone<\/strong> is another possible book model and a good read no matter what.\u00a0 Okay I\u2019m a little lonesome for the gulls, et al.. I\u2019m still working on book suggestions linked somehow to gardens for the proposed Herring Gut gardeners. How about the herbalist\u2019s garden in Sarah Orne Jewett\u2019s Country of the Pointed Firs<\/strong>? Scott thinks he knows where it was.\u00a0 Other suggestions? And no, I am not sending in \u201cPickled\u201d as a possible newsletter title, though it did come to mind.<\/p>\n I continue to experiment with knittings for porch events and varied temperatures. Roseledge Book Regulars may recall last year\u2019s big woolly, the super sized, soft sweater with detached collar, warm enough for people with no neck to enjoy late fall\u2019s last late nights. Now I am working on a shoulders only\u00a0 “drop-on”, a not-scratchy, lightweight biggish collar, able to be dropped into place without getting up from my chair. So far, this third iteration looks good: not too big or loosely stitched (first try) and better pinned than knitted closed (second try). Time to see if the patio here will serve as a test location. I have found the perfect wine, surely named Kenwood for my new digs, and the chairs are in place.<\/p>\n David Baldacci\u2019s<\/strong> latest paperback, Deliver Us From Evil<\/strong>, is keeping me company, but nothing beats seeing you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, especially, I miss my old neighbors. Every St. Patrick\u2019s Day the mostly Scandinavian-surnamed lot of them would \u201cdrop in\u201d after work, sure of their Irish coffee and soda bread, to argue the important question: were the Irish here before … Continue reading ![\"IMG_2539.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_z6Mg7VzfQSU\/TVH6MmUgnFI\/AAAAAAAAC8A\/nrM0VHvigSE\/IMG_2539.jpg\")
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