![]() Her books are such a welcome getaway from the speed of life today. ![]() If you'd like to stop by for a visit there.īy the way, I love "The Best of Stillmeadow". Come into the forum and you'll see some topics to read about. Delightful.Īlso.make sure you visit Susan Stanley's "Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow". I got some wonderful photos and everything was just as Gladys describes in her books. Click on that and you'll see Stillmeadow. Just go to the Photo Albums and then you'll see "May, 2005 Pictures". I live in New York state, and I'm about an hour from where Stillmeadow is. Erik and I visited there this spring and it was wonderful. If you want to see Stillmeadow as it is today (very little changed from Gladys' day by the way) please stop by our website. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. There is just something so special about her.Maybe the fact she found such joy in the everyday living and peace of her home in the country! I fix a cup of Sleepytime Tea and drift into her world at Stillmeadow. I have a few of her titles I found at a used bookstore. Hi Molly! I read that one a few months ago! Isn't it wonderful! I love to sit down late in the evening when it is peaceful with Gladys Taber books. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Henry David Thoreau I am just devouring it, I can't get enough!!! HI all, how ironic I came across this thread, since I just checked out one of her books the other day at the library "The Best of Stillmeadow, A Treasury of Country Living", edited by her daughter Constance Taber Colby. ![]() We'll be friends until we're blue in the hair. She always seemed to invite us in for tea.and sit us right down at the kitchen table. Everytime I read one of her books, I can "see" exactly what she is doing at that particular moment, what the weather is like, what the animals are doing. That is so true!! I you read between the lines, here was a single woman with a child in the 1930's through the crazy times of the war and the 50's and 60's who lived a farm/country life which I even today a woman doing that herself is still unfortunately not common (thanks to websites like this that will change!!) She makes me feel like I can maintain my home and family, but makes it fun and always find the adventure in it, especially when something goes wrong. MaryJanesFarm Farmgirl Connection - Gladys Taber books ![]()
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