Kindred Spirits articles from March 2003

Kindred Spirits archives from March 2003

The Good-Night Angel.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... The Good-Night Angel The good-night angel comes at eve Across the quiet hills, And tucks the sleepy blossoms in Beside the meadow rills. On uplands wide each drowsy bird He cradles in its nest, And in a dewy...

Dear Kindred Spirits.
March 22, 2003... Today has been, as Anne herself would say 'an epoch in my life'.--LM Montgomery, The Alpine Path Spring 2003 has arrived with great excitement in the realization that Anne of Green Gables is ninety-five years old. Our magazine is a...

Thank you, Maud.(author L.M. Montgomery)
March 22, 2003... 1874-1942 And I got a letter from the Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Premier of Great Britain! --Selected Journals of LM Montgomery Vol. III What would we say to Maud, if you were still here with us7 Though we never got the chance to meet you,...

Roses for Maud.(author L.M. Montgomery; includes excerpt from her Selected Journals, vol. III)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
March 22, 2003... I would like to offer an additional bouquet of roses for LM Montgomery. Not only for her style of writing and the immense reading pleasure she has given me, but for her outstanding and intuitive vocabulary. Most of us like words, especially new...

To Lucy Maud Montgomery.(Tribute to LM Montgomery)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY You are gone, our Island author You have laid your pen aside, You have said good-bye to loved ones You have crossed the swelling tide. When the news came o'er the wires It was heard with...

Our Kindred Spirits share.(Marilyn Lightstone, author and actress)(includes comments on author L.M. Montgomery)(Interview)
March 22, 2003... Miss Stacy was a bright, sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally.--Anne of Green Gables According to this quote, Kevin...

Reaching back.(appreciation for Anne, character from author L.M. Montgomery's novels)
March 22, 2003... And I was wishing you could have stayed a little girl, even with all your queer ways.--Anne of Green Gables I've fallen in love. My love is much younger than I, or much older--depending on how you perceive it. She's no Gibson Girl, even if...

The Olden Orchard Remembers When.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... The Olden Orchard Remembers When Dusk comes to the olden orchard And its enchantment bids me to come. I walk among the breeze blown grasses. The crickets serenade me in hum. I come to a place that time has not...

Springtime Blossoms.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Springtime Blossoms Suddenly Like a genie Released from its bondage The magic Happens. The trees burst into blossoms. Every hue of White Pink Yellow And hints of green. Abound. ...

Little Anne.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Little Anne for Anna Elizabeth My little girl, her titan curls, Braids swaying to and fro Calico print and pinafore, How quickly little girls grow. Mommy, I'm Anne! Look at met She giggles and dances about,...

The News.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
March 22, 2003... The News Why, Marilla Cuthbert, come inside, Of course, you'll stay ta tea. Land sakes, it's been so long Hmmm, now let me see. Well anyway, take off your wrap I'll lay it here on the chair. Take a seat and...

Chronicles of an old garden.(lilacs in gardening)(lilacs in the works of author L.M. Montgomery)
March 22, 2003... In the garden below were lilac trees purple with flowers, and their dizzily sweet fragrance drifted up to the window on the morning wind.--Anne of Green Gables Almost romantic ballet Jardin aux lilas set in a lilac garden in the Edwardian...

Pen friends.
March 22, 2003... Just think, Diana, I'm thirteen years old today, remarked Anne... Anne of Green Gables Dear Kindred Spirits, Hi! I am fifteen years old. I would love to have a Pen Pal between the ages of 13 years--17 years. I would especially like a...

Between the hill and valley.(Fictional Work)
March 22, 2003... It was one of the moist, pleasantly odorous nights of early spring; the snow was not quite all gone--a little dingy bank of it yet lay along under the firs on Jackson's hill, facing northward, away from the influence of spring suns. It kept the...

Not a Kindred Spirit after all.(television adaptation Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story, by Kevin Sullivan, based on novels by L.M. Montgomery)
March 22, 2003... The proverb you need to go by is 'Look before you leap'.--Anne of Green Gables One of the goals of my second visit to the most beautiful island in the world was to hear islander reaction to the newest Kevin Sullivan production about our...

With the children.(Fictional Work)
March 22, 2003... Diana, you might take Anne out into the garden and show her your flowers. --Anne of Green Gables The Children's Garden Come with and see the children's garden, said a dear old lady, with lovely silvery puffs of hair and bright, dark...

Tribute to Anne.(friendship; narrative)(friendship in the novels of author L.M. Montgomery)
March 22, 2003... We were born to be good friends, Anne.--Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery and the Gift of Friendship When LM Montgomery penned the story Anne of Green Gables, little could she know of the continuing impact her words would have on...

Springtime pilgrimage.(Song Birds )(Poem)
March 22, 2003... I know the birds are singing there In the old orchards glad with bloom.--When the Spring Calls Song Birds Rain drops in the morning Against my window-pane, Without a bird a-singing, A-singing in the rain! ...

The necklace of the year.
March 22, 2003... For Anne the days slipped by like golden beads on the necklace of the year. --Anne of Green Gables The beads on our necklace are the months of the year. Can you name the month?--Sandy 1. Anne arrived at Green Gables? 2. Anne's...

Around the kitchen table.
March 22, 2003... Chocolate upside side down cake 3/4 cup white sugar 1 cup flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 2 tbsp. cocoa 2 tbsp. melted butter 1/2 cup milk vanilla 1/2 cup nuts (optional) 3/4 cup white sugar 3/4 cup brown sugar...

Anne's song.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... Matthew and I have decided to keep you.--Anne of Green Gables Oh Anne had red tresses and a temper the same; She was lively and charming and soon we all came To love her as much as our clear island air--Soon Anne of Green...