http://www.salidaarchive.org/atl/ A collection of weekly musings from Salida Regional Library's director, Jeff Donlan I’ve met quite a few retired art teachers now, and while they’ve retired from teaching, none has retired from art. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/pages/465.html Physics for Future Presidents. What a great title. It’s a book by Berkeley physics professor Richard A. Muller, subtitled The science behind the headlines. http://salidarchive.org/atl/pages/464.html While reading through a large stack of resumes this weekend, I came upon an invoice. Whoops ... wrong pile. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/pages/463.html It had not mistakenly written 09 for a while, but I just did again. It takes the month of January, which feels like a month of Sundays to me, to feel that the previous year is really gone. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/pages/462.html A certain tea ritual of mine crossed over into habit. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/page/461.html LearningExpress is the name of a new offering at the library that is an online learning center where you might learn that until very recently “Learning” and “Express” would always have had a space between them. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/pages/460.html Visual artists and poets, you have three months and three weeks to prepare your entry for the library’s 2010 challenge art show: “Beyond Words: Art of the Poem.” http://salidaarchive.org/atl/pages/459.html I hate it. I just lost a game of Scrabble on the penultimate turn to the word ‘atomical.” A triple-word score, plus fifty-point bonus for using all seven letters. http://salidaarchive.org/atlpages/458.html Last night, I watched a Kurosawa film, High and Low, in which the most violent scene was of two boys playing Old West outlaws. Yet the film is an intense drama of kidnapping, police work, relationships, and character. And probably not for children. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/pages/457.html I would have chuckled, but I was absorbed in the telling of the scene: my friend at his kitchen table checking his email and reading the paper on his laptop while watching a five-point buck lounging outside the window. http://salidaarchive.org/atl/paages/456.html