IT WAS TIME. IT WAS FINALLY HERE. The air was filled with the sweet smell of maple.

In Italiana there is a say which is chi va sano va lontano. Sano means good health and lontano means far. Kirundi a language from Burundi also sounds Italian and the word chi in Italian which means who or people in Kirundi means summer or the hot season.

Saint John Baptiste is also Saint Jean Baptiste day in French. It is a feast which was brought to Canada after the French revolution. On that day which is the 24th of July there is a fire which is light and therefore it is probably the first day to camp outside with the children and have a good meal cooked in the open air.

An interview with the author of Silent Battlefields: a novel.

Writing topic from my Creative Mamas group.

The sunshine is there already. It has not missed the June appointment. There are people who think that the sunshine can make you easily bear sons than girls.

There are people who feel lonely because they do not speak the language of the country. You can see it on their faces. They look like lost.

All families have family feuds, when they are not resolved :

I thought I might struggle to get very far this month, having been so prolific with posts over the past three months, but I did actually manage 50, so it was not as bad as I had feared.

There are books written for children. Some of them are fairy tales. Therefore the psychology of children is important because they have to grow up with there age.