It's my birthday too, yeah!March is birthday month at our house. Each year I give my children a book each for their birthdays. I write a note on the inside cover, noting their age and the date and why I thought this particular book was fitting for them at this time in their lives. Each time I do I wonder: where will this book end up? What other children will read my note and wonder about this special child?
We have a few books with notes written inside the cover or in the margin. Some are simply the owner's name and address, others are inscriptions. There's something in reading another person's thoughts in a book - almost a connection through time and space.
Some books I've bought for others: Jenny Goes to Sea by Esther Averill; Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz; La Belle Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind by Beppe Severgnini; Girl Meets God: on the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner; Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World by Peter Padfield
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I can see your getting that CSS editing down! Great job and Happy up coming Birthday!!!!
I'm getting better - I can move pic's around now. I'm still trying to figure out how to replace the empty blue space around the outside of the blog
Variable name="bgcolor" description="Page Background Color"
type="color" default="#000" value="#000000"
for mine - 000000 is black
But how do I replace it with a transparent image? If I can - I think it might be in the code for the "sribe" template.
Try this:
background-image: url('http://sighman4jeep.googlepages.com/sigh11.jpg');
background-repeat: attribute;
change the image location of coarse unless you want me as your background!
You guys are so beyond me with your deep coding! Way to go! And Happy Birthday!
Happy Aries (?) Family. Set the world on fire. But don't try to ram things too much.
Some of the inscriptions on books lead me to wonder how that person turned out, how they lived. Loving inscriptions from grandparents, challenging inscriptions from Sunday School teachers, personal glimpses.
I've given: Teacher, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner; Anguished English by Richard Lederer; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick; lots more.
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