Quiet Things, Quiet Places
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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.
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
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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