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By: Mandarina

Mandarina — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:24:04 +0000

You write beautifully. I wish someone (perhaps that Sharon, who should easily be able to squeeze more into her day(!)) could turn some of these important stories into a children’s bible for today.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:13:32 +0000

Have you read The Relatives Are Coming, by Cynthia Rylant? The anticipation in the last part of your story makes me think a lot of that book.

Lovely story, by the way.

By: Bettina

Bettina — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:14:42 +0000

I should not have read this while working (hm hm) at the office. Wonder what my colleague thinks of the tears in my eyes.
Lovely story. Not only for children.

I’m just reading “a nation of farmers”.

Yep, this is just the kind of positive story about the future that people need to hear.
And, truly, Noah built his ark BEFORE it started to rain.

I’m ark building, too. Very slowly, but nevertheless proceeding.

Best wishes to all Noahs out there,
Bettina

By: Kate-B

Kate-B — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:23:47 +0000

I feel like you are channeling the spirit of my grand-aunty, Talk-Talk Gurtie. I hear she was an amiable, yet sensible woman.

She’d probably call out to anybody who hears, “Time to get in out of the rain. Now come on!”

By: Kerrick

Kerrick — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:08:30 +0000

This is a really great, hopeful story. And I wonder if whoever publishes Ursula Vernon’s very weird children’s books would let you keep “hairy old-man ass,” or at least allude to it in some fashion. I can see Ursula Vernon’s touch illustrating it, too, although her usual style is a bit more surreal—you might end up with all the characters as kind of cynical hard-bitten woods varmints, and all the livestock as cheerful, friendly, rather dim invertebrates.

I’m gonna forward this to my Rabbi.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:10:52 +0000

maybe you can’t have “hairy old-man ass” in a kids book, but you should be able to

I love this story, it makes my heart sing!

Ark-building is what we are aiming for too :*

By: NM

NM — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:06:38 +0000

I cried too, in between laughing out loud. Sign me up for the ark. And keep the phrase hairy old-man ass, even if it has to be a children’s story for us grown-ups.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:30:43 +0000

Beautiful! I want to build an ark too!

By: Susan B

Susan B — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:30:15 +0000

Yes, that’s it exactly.