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Welcome to National Clutter Awareness Week. Of course,
many of us need only to look at our desks, closets, or garages to be aware of clutter!
Today is National Organize Your Home Office Day, so it's a good time to start clearing
that clutter out of your life!
Wednesday is Pecan Day, which celebrates "America's own nut."
First cultivated by Native Americans, the pecan has been transplanted to other continents
but has failed to achieve wide use or popularity outside the US.
Thursday is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day. Name it for whatever you wish
and enjoy your own special celebration! We could call it Roswell Public Library Patron
Appreciation Day!
Monday is the anniversary of the day in 1842 when anesthetic was first
used in surgery. Dr. Crawford Long removed a tumor from the neck of a man who was under
the influence of ether. Monday is also the anniversary of the 1964 television premiere of
the game show "Jeopardy" and the anniversary of the day in 1858 when the first
pencil with an eraser top was patented by Hyman Lipman.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes focus on the body with
books, movement activities and a craft time, during which participants will trace and
decorate their own bodies. Saturday morning's 10:00 storytime enjoys money magic.
Participants will make a lift-the-flap money puzzle and money hat.
BOOK TALK
This week's book information is provided by Young Adult Librarian Larry
Holm. What better way to celebrate Clutter Awareness Week than by starting your spring
cleaning? Now that our strong southern sun is peeling back winter's gloom, the library's
tools and resources for spring vitality and rejuvenation are looking very fine, indeed!
You can begin with "How to Clean Practically Anything" and
"Mary Ellen's Clean House: The All-In-One Place Guide to Contemporary
Housecleaning." However, if your cleaning challenge borders on the bizarre, check out
"How Do I Clean the Moosehead and 99 More Tough Questions About Housecleaning."
If you have too much stuff to clean, get the book "Not for Packrats Only: How to
Clean Up, Clear Out, and Live Clutter Free Forever." Those of you with messy pets
will appreciate "Pet Clean Up Made Easy."
If your home still looks old and dreary once you unclutter and clean
it, be sure to check out these two gems. "Basic Landscape Construction" just
radiates lots of simple, attractive, low-cost and easy-to-do landscape projects that look
gorgeous and expensive.
But enough with cleaning. Surely spring is made for finer things. You
could start with "Look In, Look Up, Look Out: Be the Person You Were Meant to
Be" or relax with "Just Clean Fun: The Best in Christian Comedy." Help kids
revel in the joy of spring with "Amazing Sun Fun Activities," "Spring
Science Projects," or with some of the thoughtful ideas in "Raising Spiritual
Children in a Material World" or the "Natural Treasures Field Guide for
Kids." For those in a poetic mood, there's "Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring
Poems" and "Ordinary Things: Poems from a Walk in Early Spring."
While you're busy with spring activities, you can listen to talking
books like P.G. Wodehouse's "Uncle Fred in the Springtime"; "Charles
Kuralt's Spring"; Julia Cameron's "Heart Steps"; or Anthony Robbins'
"Personal Power II," a 24-cassette Magnum Opus of personal motivation that not
only taps his wisdom but adds that of masters such as John Gray, Barbara DeAngelis, and
Stephen R. Covey.
After you've finished with spring's labors, plan a great get-away to
one of New Mexico's own "Historic Hotels of the Rocky Mountains." To complete
your spring celebration, relax with one of nature's luxurious recipes for body and skin
care found in "the Natural Beauty and Bath Book."
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
"If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop
digging." (from "A Cowboy's Guide to Life"
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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