For A Good Teacher

"What thanks sufficient, or what recompence
Equal, have I to render thee, divine
Historian, who thus largely hast allayed
The thirst I had of knowledge, and vouchsafed
This friendly condescension to relate
Things, else by me unsearchable; now heard
With wonder, but delight, and, as is due,
With glory attributed to the high
Creator!"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Tea Time

For those of you who have not stopped in the charming little bookstore in Batavia lately, I would highly recommend that you do so. While the selection is limited to what a supplier sends to our cousin, the old-fashioned building is wonderfully complemented with candles, quilts, tea, and wood floors that you would not be able to find at Barnes and Noble. On Saturday Martha and I went to Present Tense while in Batavia and bought:
Evangeline and other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Journal of Helene Berr
(As always, I had to go to the bathroom as soon as I began my search and couldn't find a restroom anywhere.)
I also saw three Redwall titles that I did not recognize. The old bard Brian Jacques passed away sometime last year, so we should honor him by reading the last of his excellent stories.
Another quiant little shoppe that everyone should visit is Another Time, Another Place in Millville. Although there are no books to peruse in the old church, they do serve lunch and tea and they have typewriters for sale upstairs, an immediate bonus to any store. I haven't been to Another Time, Another Place since last summer with Nicole, but we have been waiting eargerly to return ever since. If anyone would want to bike from the house with us, we'd enjoy the company.