Ukiah Library’s Book Club

Meets on Wednesday, June 19^th, 6:30 pm

Our June book pick is The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King.

Request your copy of the book through the library’s catalog. 

Bring a book to share in a book exchange.
 

For more information, call Anne Shirako at 463-4493, or email: shirakoa@co.mendocino.ca.us

House Dog's Grave

The House Dog’s Grave (Robinson Jeffers)
(Haig, an English bulldog)
I’ve changed my ways a little; I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream; and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.
So leave awhile the paw-marks on the front door
Where I used to scratch to go out or in,
And you’d soon open; leave on the kitchen floor
The marks of my drinking-pan.
I cannot lie by your fire as I used to do
On the warm stone,
Nor at the foot of your bed; no, all the nights through
I lie alone.
But your kind thought has laid me less than six feet
Outside your window where firelight so often plays,
And where you sit to read- and I fear often grieving for me-
Every night your lamplight lies on my place.
You, man and woman, live so long, it is hard
To think of you ever dying.
A little dog would get tired, living so long.
I hope that when you are lying
Under the ground like me your lives will appear
As good and joyful as mine.
No, dears, that’s too much hope: you are not so well cared for
As I have been.
And never have known the passionate undivided
Fidelities that I knew.
Your minds are perhaps too active, too many-sided….
But to me you were true.
You were never masters, but friends. I was your friend.
I loved you well, and was loved. Deep love endures
To the end and far past the end. If this is my end,
I am not lonely. I am not afraid. I am still yours.

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

TO HELP IMPROVE OUR
SERVICE TO YOU,
ALL
MENDOCINO COUNTY
LIBRARIES WILL BE CLOSED ON
TUESDAY APRIL 30th FOR AN
ALL STAFF TRAINING DAY

WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY
INCONVENIENCE. (All overdue
fines will be waived for this day.)
ALL LIBRARIES WILL REOPEN ON
WEDNESDAY MAY 1st AT THEIR
NORMAL TIME.

a poem for April 7th

Wind Last Night Blew Down by Author Unknown

Wind last night blew down A gardenful of peach blossoms. A boy with a broom Is starting to sweep them up. Fallen flowers are flowers still; Don’t brush them away.

New YA area in Ukiah Library

We are just beginning...

to design our new young adult space.

Carrie Hamburg

Dan Hamburg's wife Carrie died last night.  This is a poem she liked.

Death is Nothing at All

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

Influenza and the Norovirus: protecting yourself with Herbal Medicine

Protecting yourself with Herbal Medicine

from Influenza and the Norovirus
with Mary Pat Palmer,
registered Herbalist

at

The Ukiah Library
105 N Main St, Ukiah CA
Saturday, February 23rd from 12 noon to 3 pm

Influenza affects your respiratory system and the Norovirus is the most common cause of stomach bugs. This class will discuss the physiology of these viruses and look at herbs that are effective against these viruses and the different systems of herbal delivery.  Delivery systems include hydrosols, tinctures, capsules, poutices and vitamins. 


Mary Pat Palmer is a registered community herbalist and director of the Philo School of Herbal Energectics. Check out her website: http://www.herbalenergetics.com

for lots of downloadable articles and links.

First Saturday Booksale at the Ukiah Library

Friends of the Ukiah Library

First Saturday Booksale

10 to 3:30

a variety of great books at resonable prices!

105 N Main St

Ukiah CA 95482

Special Grant Foundation workshop at the Ukiah Library

Scott Ullman of the Foundation Center will hold a workshop at the Ukiah Library
on March 4th at 1 pm.

Event

Guide to Online Grantseeker Resources and Foundation Directory Online

Free

Learn to navigate and use the wide range of resources available through the foundation's databases, Foundation Directory Online and Philanthropy In/Sight, and on the Foundation Center's newest web site, GrantSpace.org.

This session provides an introduction to the Foundation Center's comprehensive online database, Foundation Directory Online Professional. Learn how to create customized searches to develop targeted lists of foundations that will match your organization's funding needs. We will spend time exploring Power Search, which allows you to search across nine Foundation Center databases ? grantmakers, grants, companies, 990s, news, jobs, RFPs, nonprofit literature, and PubHub reports.  You'll also be introduced to the Center's newest, map-based research tool, Philanthropy In/Sight.

This hands-on session will also introduce you to the resources available on the Foundation Center?s newest web site for grantseekers, GrantSpace.org.  GrantSpace, a service of the Foundation Center, offers information and resources that are specifically designed to meet the needs of grantseekers. You can explore content based on your subject area or a skill set you want to improve, as well as take advantage of our various tools to get answers to the most frequently asked questions, find sample documents, including proposals, and more.

This class will show you how to get the most out of the web site, to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to get grants, manage your nonprofit, and improve your community.

Sign up online here: 

http://grantspace.org/Classroom/Training-Calendar/Other-Locations/Guide-to-Online-Grantseeker-Resources-2013-03-04-Ukiah-CA  

Any Questions: Call Eliza 463-4580