If you read my blog regularly or are signed up for my newsletter, you know I’ve started a publishing company called Spectacled Bear. Its tagline is: “Saving gentle reads from extinction.”
The website and our first book both debut mid-summer, but in the meantime I’m seeing spectacled bears everywhere. It’s the Pregnancy Syndrome. You know, when you’re pregnant you see other pregnant women at the super market, the mall, the park. You never knew there were so many before.
Or you buy a new car, a white one, and suddenly you see white cars all over the road. Or you get purple streaks in your hair; and, Voila!, everyone has purple streaks.
So when Earl and I visited Shipshewana last weekend, who did I run into but a spectacled bear. It wasn’t the exact image of my website’s logo or even a semblance of the actual spectacled bear in the animal kingdom.
No matter. It came up to me as a kindred spirit and asked to have its photo taken. Of course, I obliged and the result is my first attempt at putting photos into my previously word-focused blog. But I suspect I’ll see spectacled bears everywhere going forward, and I‘ll want to share their charm.
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