Kyle Zimmer, a lawyer, is the President and Co-founder of First Book, the amazing nonprofit social enterprise founded to ensure that local schools and community programs across the country serving children from low-income families would have a steady supply of the brand-new, high-quality books they so desperately need. With her support, First Book has grown its Día engagement as part of First Book’s commitment to connect children to books that promote diversity and inclusion (Stories for All Project). She embraced the opportunity for First Book to expand the Mora Award to more partners growing the Día movement and encourages her staff to work cross-functionally to elevate Día nationally. Kyle’s commitment to innovation and collaboration has earned her a reputation as a social sector leader.
Introducing…
…my daughter Libby’s new web site.
Libby’s talents include being a writer, lawyer and gardener.
We have published two books together:
For the last three years, Libby and her husband Roger, a Colorado history professor, have been living in Madrid (Spain). Libby and I are working on a new book with that setting.
Enjoy this new site that Libby herself created.
Hurry home, Libby!
Pat
Shine
Special Spaces
“We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” (Churchill) I used this quote to open the last chapter, December, of my family memoir House of Houses. Has it really been twenty years since this book was published? Writing it, when my husband Vern and I first began to spend time in Santa Fe, was the opportunity to spend time listening, listening literally and in my imagination to some of my favorite voices–my family–and to return to the spaces where I grew up. How were you shaped by the dwellings where you spent your early years?
For a new project, I’m returning to my early spaces. May you discover good memories and instructive memories in quiet moments as 2017 ends, and you also begin new projects that energize you.
Pat
Snow in the Desert?
My son took this wonderful picture from our back deck last year. Santa Fe (NM) meaning holy faith, was founded as a Spanish colony in 1610. Located in what is called high desert at an elevation for over 7,000 feet, the terrain is quite different from the low desert terrain of El Paso (TX) where I was born and spent many years. Deserts: one of my sources of inspiration.
Pat
