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    Quiet Things, Quiet Places
    Quiet Things, Quiet Places
    Quiet Things, Quiet Places
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    Quiet Things, Quiet Places

    By Leona Koehn Nichols

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    Leona Koehn Nichols remembers an idyllic childhood with parents who loved them, and a mom who knew how to make it fun to be a child. She taught English classes for junior high and high school, always with great passion for poetry and other literature. Writing has always been an activity that is important to her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 20, 2014
    ISBN9781491865187
    Quiet Things, Quiet Places
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    Leona Koehn Nichols

    Leona Koehn Nichols was born and raised on a farm in Livingston, Ca. the middle child of three children. She remembers an idyllic childhood with parents who loved them, and a mom who knew how to make it fun to be a child. Living near the Merced River, summer afternoons were spent swimming, often with cousins as well as her two brothers. Her mom was a reader whose gift of reading to her children at bedtime is a memory still treasured. She read the children's classics as well as Bible story books. Bedtime was a time the children looked forward to. In her late 40's she was privileged to attend college, earning a B.A. in English and then becoming a teacher for nearly 20 years. She taught English classes for junior high and high school, always with great passion for poetry and other literature. She is currently retired and lives with her "farmer" husband on their almond ranch in Central California. She enjoys gardening, but her first love is her large family of six children, twenty grandchildren, and six great-grands. Writing has always been an activity that is important to her.

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      Quiet Things, Quiet Places - Leona Koehn Nichols

      AuthorHouse™ LLC

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      © 2014 Leona Koehn Nichols. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 02/18/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-6520-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-6519-4 (hc)

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      Contents

      Introduction

      The Little Girl Inside

      Everyday Observations

      I Love Quiet Things

      Ode to Life

      Faces

      If I Could, I Would …

      The Fleeting Years

      A Friend Concealed

      Temptation

      Hard Work

      Dreamer or Schemer?

      The Towering Tree

      Her Way

      Soliloquy at Dusk

      The Boy on the Swing

      No Longer There

      Little Girl, Big Ocean

      Foolish Heart

      Nature

      Spring Moves

      Camping

      The Mountain Stream

      Tall Granite Peaks

      Life’s Changing Seasons

      The Merced River

      The Winter Sentinel

      When In Disgrace

      Sonnet 10

      Sonnet 19

      Sonnet 23

      When I Consider

      Faith

      Tradition

      I Will Trust Jesus

      Through Jesus I’m Free

      Communion

      My Gifts

      Upright and Just

      Isaiah 53

      Freedom With Him

      Preparing the Bride

      God’s In Control

      Today

      The Shepherd

      The Sacrifice

      The Call

      Living With Jesus

      A Friend to Sinners

      Rivers of Living Water

      Step Out in Faith

      Family

      A Tribute to a Beloved Brother

      My Son

      Queen of the Kitchen Floor

      Hike Around the Lake

      Demonstrated Love

      To My Special Dad

      Happy Family Times

      A Family Who Loves

      Christmas Joy

      In the Fullness of Time

      We Would Have Done It Differently

      The Light of the World

      Where do you Stand?

      I Wasn’t There

      Jesus Was Born for Me

      Poems that tell a story

      He Was His Own Man

      Have You Heard About Jesus?

      In Conclusion …

      Introduction

      My love for poetry was a legacy handed down from my mother. The book she treasured, entitled Golden Thoughts from the Great Writers, was one I carried out to my swing to read as I slowly moved back and forth. I’m sure I loved it as much for the elegant prints scattered through the book and its gold edging and beautiful cover as I did its poems, which were mostly beyond me. However, I was introduced to Longfellow’s famous Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal; dust thou art to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul. That stuck, for some reason.

      A more readable book for a child was A Child’s Garden of Verses, which had poems designed for the young child. One of my favorites there was My Shadow, which I memorized, as well as several others.

      But it was my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Kemper, who really gave me the love for poetry I have carried all my life. She had us get our coats and lunch boxes, sit at our desks, and memorize poetry the last fifteen minutes of each day. By the end of the year we had memorized twenty of more

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