Dear Reader,
One of my favorite picture books is Snippet by Diane Alber. It tells the story of that bit of paper that is left when all the shapes are cut out - the triangles, the squares. That leaves the snippet.
What does one call it? Where does it belong? Alber tells a story of how the shape that doesn't fit isn't wrong.
Instead, Snippet's way of thinking and finding his place enhances the triangles and squares that day! To make a chimney in a house, or a window with curtains, to make an extra door to enter. That's when snippets are mentioned!
The scissors go looking for snippets they made, and the glue then to paste that chimney on a house. The Snippet in the book is kind that day to the polygons who don't see how.
He shows them how all the parts play together to make a picture unique. As an interdisciplinary professional, I've often been that snippet trying to 'speak my piece.'
A poet, a teacher, a writer and a researcher with a background in inclusive design and disability: now a librarian interested in various facets of health, human rights practice, and migration and memory who happened to work in pediatric ophthalmology while earning her degree.
Still true to my roots in classroom teaching and early childhood intervention, I'm curious about children's information seeking and measuring speech development in library spaces.
There is a music and rhythm to poetry too, in every picture book I query, and in my last year of study that got me curious about the accessibility of sheet music in music libraries! I also pursued understanding 'whole person librarians' while in this degree. I imagine that might be, the next learning I do to integrate how social work philosophies can better support mental health needs in our rural Arizona libraries.
I stand with the disciplinary polygons, within whatever boundary, but so too between. The snippet can be a bridge, a ladder....I mean a snippet can be anything, fit anywhere and is organic enough, to always seem as though its perspective belonged.
May this website be an introduction, just a snippet, a seed. I'd love to meet you in person. Feel free to contact me.
We can talk about picture books, about poets, about playgrounds and libraries, about designing online courses. about health sciences research, and data extraction matrices.
Let me know if you need developmental edits, if you need help with Excel, and always let me know if you need a poem to perk you up when you're not feeling well.
Let me know what I don't know, by sharing all that you do. We can feed each others' curiosities, grow together, and maybe, read a picture book or two.
Warmly,
Divya Ramesh
August 02, 2024
Tucson, Arizona, USA
One of my favorite picture books is Snippet by Diane Alber. It tells the story of that bit of paper that is left when all the shapes are cut out - the triangles, the squares. That leaves the snippet.
What does one call it? Where does it belong? Alber tells a story of how the shape that doesn't fit isn't wrong.
Instead, Snippet's way of thinking and finding his place enhances the triangles and squares that day! To make a chimney in a house, or a window with curtains, to make an extra door to enter. That's when snippets are mentioned!
The scissors go looking for snippets they made, and the glue then to paste that chimney on a house. The Snippet in the book is kind that day to the polygons who don't see how.
He shows them how all the parts play together to make a picture unique. As an interdisciplinary professional, I've often been that snippet trying to 'speak my piece.'
A poet, a teacher, a writer and a researcher with a background in inclusive design and disability: now a librarian interested in various facets of health, human rights practice, and migration and memory who happened to work in pediatric ophthalmology while earning her degree.
Still true to my roots in classroom teaching and early childhood intervention, I'm curious about children's information seeking and measuring speech development in library spaces.
There is a music and rhythm to poetry too, in every picture book I query, and in my last year of study that got me curious about the accessibility of sheet music in music libraries! I also pursued understanding 'whole person librarians' while in this degree. I imagine that might be, the next learning I do to integrate how social work philosophies can better support mental health needs in our rural Arizona libraries.
I stand with the disciplinary polygons, within whatever boundary, but so too between. The snippet can be a bridge, a ladder....I mean a snippet can be anything, fit anywhere and is organic enough, to always seem as though its perspective belonged.
May this website be an introduction, just a snippet, a seed. I'd love to meet you in person. Feel free to contact me.
We can talk about picture books, about poets, about playgrounds and libraries, about designing online courses. about health sciences research, and data extraction matrices.
Let me know if you need developmental edits, if you need help with Excel, and always let me know if you need a poem to perk you up when you're not feeling well.
Let me know what I don't know, by sharing all that you do. We can feed each others' curiosities, grow together, and maybe, read a picture book or two.
Warmly,
Divya Ramesh
August 02, 2024
Tucson, Arizona, USA