Welcome to Love’s Healing Reading Room—a home for poets, storytellers and bookworms.
The reading room is a unique treasure bestowed upon us by the late George Finney Linn, III.
Nestled in the hills of the Ottawa Valley in Old Killaloe, the reading room is home to George’s lifelong book collection and covers a vast array of topics—all of which called out to him in one way or another throughout his lifetime.
Endorsements
During her visit, Sandra Gulland was inspired to write this blog post about the Reading Room.
“A wonderful place to think, being already so full of the thoughts of others.” Wayne Grady, July 2017
“Books, words, ideas, love — all palpable here — thank you.” Merilyn Simonds, July 2017
“What a wonderful place and book collection. I will be back.” Sandra Gulland, July 2017
An Ode to Love’s Healing Reading Room
A compilation and remix of words and phrases from launch participants, as well as published authors and poets.
Assembled by Andy Trull.
For Love’s Healing Reading Room, Sept 22, 2018
Yet love, mere love, is beautiful indeed —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A life lived like a story
under the umbrella sky
elm and maple canopy
a holy man leaves blank pages
garden flowers for the soul
where weeds and groves in solemn grandeur rise
simple beauty
the relation of all loves
and all love’s relations
for passion is the job
threading time and space
like words in a perfect sentence
an angel pulls the pencil from behind your ear
alighting goosebumps on your temples
temples of goosebumps and gooseberries
there is so much beauty everywhere
some much to drink in
drunk with peace
drunk with truth
the sacred
joyous grief
of dissembling
for our skin is our frontier
our life’s a border
a round path of strawberry fields
assembling and dissembling
the interests of all relations
in this garden of love and light
lest you forget you are a californian
a cauliflowerian
a leapfrogging legend
oob-a-dupe
for we are all from
some place
lest we forget
ohio, kingston, kilalloe
turtle island
pangea
gondwana
mercury
subatomic sitting rooms
rooms to sit
and read
be still
until you are ready to rise
click your heels three times and sing
there is no place like home
there is no place like home
there is no place
like
home