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bluegreen17) wrote2003-05-26 12:50 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-05-26 12:50 pm
books and smiles
i'm all cozy and peaceful in my little apartment that is like my little cottage. i actually like the fact that i hear signs of life around me in the other apartments.upstairs,someone occasionally plays a game that has a 'pinging' sound. i hear people doing their laundry and washing up and flushing their toilets. i hear people's answering machines. i like certain everyday sounds of people just going about their business.
i'm enjoying the solitude. and not really going anywhere. no appointments,no chores other than laundry and cleaning the place. no outside chores will i be doing. partly because it's a holiday and partly because yesterday my car started making a noise that i'm thinking might be a belt going. so i am hoping to get it to the garage today,to drop it off so it can be looked at and repaired if necessary. right now it's pouring buckets. i'm rather hoping it lets up later in the day so i don't get too wet walking home from the garage.
nevertheless,it has been raining off and on for a week. i don't think we've seen the sun since last monday,which was a glorious day. we might see sun tomorrow. everything is now glorious green. ireland green. yes!
last week i picked up a few books at the library,and of course i'm often looking in the dewey 100's,which is computers,ufos, journalism,self-help,occult,religion,then sociology...lots of my favorite stuff. yes,as a long time avid reader of nonfiction,i know the dewey decimal system pretty well! anyway,i borrowed a book called -building your field of dreams- by mary manin morrissey,of which i've only read a bit,but it did get me into investigating some
info on 'new thought'. the things that really grabbed my attention is the focus of following Jesus's example...something that seems strangely missing from much christianity.
on saturday i bought two books that i owned at one time (and may still...somewhere in my boxes of stuff...though i've given tons of books to the local library. every once in a while i'll pick up a book that looks interesting at the library and realize i donated it! i can tell,because the librarians write 'gift' on one of the first few pages along with the date it was donated. i like to think that i've shared my books this way! it's great when i can borrow them myself later on. what's tough is that sometimes the librarians decide it is not well-suited for the local library patrons...and much of what i read is not of interest to many people...though that is slowly changing...and the book goes in the book sale and is never seen again,probably. so if something is too obscure and/or out of print,i tend to hang onto it rather than take a chance.
one book i really liked that never got catalogued was a book by richard bach's son jonathan. ( i dont' know if jonathan livingston seagull was named after the son or vice versa). i forget the title but i liked it a lot,and even wrote him a letter,something i rarely do with books i like. i think he inherited his dad's talent. (though i was shocked to read recently of someone's opinion that richard bach was not a very good writer...i think he's excellent! i even read -biplane- even though i could care less about airplanes because i like his writing. now one popular author whom i consider a very poor writer who also has a poor editor,is danielle steel. irregardless of the fact that her subject matter is not my cup of tea,i once tried reading one of her books. the horror,the horror!)
anyway,so i bought -the wisdom of florence scovel shinn- by florence scovel shinn! and -science of mind- by ernest holmes. the first is great because it's very simple and practical. the second is great because it's got tons of stuff about the teachings of jesus and the new testament.
i began reading the shinn book yesterday and i think it's helped a bit to keep my mind in a better place. (of course,it could be just coincidence and my brain chemicals are okay at the moment...though that would be interesting in light of the fact that the sun's been hidden from us for seven days,which usually does not make most folks' brain chemicals too perky.)
i'm also reading -expecting adam- by martha beck,who has written a couple of self-help books and writes a regular column for O-oprah's magazine. for the record,and to my surprise,i love oprah's mag...i think it's excellent. there's always so many articles in it that inspire me ever month.
this book is about when martha beck was pregnant with her son adam,who has down's syndrome...and some of the quite otherworldly things that happened to her and her family during the pregnancy. also,how adam's very being changed the whole family for the better. (they had previously been extremely driven harvardites)
it's a very unique book and an amazing story...and i love that the fact that it's a true story.
well,that's enough for now. i hear a pint of ben and jerry's hollering for me...
i'm enjoying the solitude. and not really going anywhere. no appointments,no chores other than laundry and cleaning the place. no outside chores will i be doing. partly because it's a holiday and partly because yesterday my car started making a noise that i'm thinking might be a belt going. so i am hoping to get it to the garage today,to drop it off so it can be looked at and repaired if necessary. right now it's pouring buckets. i'm rather hoping it lets up later in the day so i don't get too wet walking home from the garage.
nevertheless,it has been raining off and on for a week. i don't think we've seen the sun since last monday,which was a glorious day. we might see sun tomorrow. everything is now glorious green. ireland green. yes!
last week i picked up a few books at the library,and of course i'm often looking in the dewey 100's,which is computers,ufos, journalism,self-help,occult,religion,then sociology...lots of my favorite stuff. yes,as a long time avid reader of nonfiction,i know the dewey decimal system pretty well! anyway,i borrowed a book called -building your field of dreams- by mary manin morrissey,of which i've only read a bit,but it did get me into investigating some
info on 'new thought'. the things that really grabbed my attention is the focus of following Jesus's example...something that seems strangely missing from much christianity.
on saturday i bought two books that i owned at one time (and may still...somewhere in my boxes of stuff...though i've given tons of books to the local library. every once in a while i'll pick up a book that looks interesting at the library and realize i donated it! i can tell,because the librarians write 'gift' on one of the first few pages along with the date it was donated. i like to think that i've shared my books this way! it's great when i can borrow them myself later on. what's tough is that sometimes the librarians decide it is not well-suited for the local library patrons...and much of what i read is not of interest to many people...though that is slowly changing...and the book goes in the book sale and is never seen again,probably. so if something is too obscure and/or out of print,i tend to hang onto it rather than take a chance.
one book i really liked that never got catalogued was a book by richard bach's son jonathan. ( i dont' know if jonathan livingston seagull was named after the son or vice versa). i forget the title but i liked it a lot,and even wrote him a letter,something i rarely do with books i like. i think he inherited his dad's talent. (though i was shocked to read recently of someone's opinion that richard bach was not a very good writer...i think he's excellent! i even read -biplane- even though i could care less about airplanes because i like his writing. now one popular author whom i consider a very poor writer who also has a poor editor,is danielle steel. irregardless of the fact that her subject matter is not my cup of tea,i once tried reading one of her books. the horror,the horror!)
anyway,so i bought -the wisdom of florence scovel shinn- by florence scovel shinn! and -science of mind- by ernest holmes. the first is great because it's very simple and practical. the second is great because it's got tons of stuff about the teachings of jesus and the new testament.
i began reading the shinn book yesterday and i think it's helped a bit to keep my mind in a better place. (of course,it could be just coincidence and my brain chemicals are okay at the moment...though that would be interesting in light of the fact that the sun's been hidden from us for seven days,which usually does not make most folks' brain chemicals too perky.)
i'm also reading -expecting adam- by martha beck,who has written a couple of self-help books and writes a regular column for O-oprah's magazine. for the record,and to my surprise,i love oprah's mag...i think it's excellent. there's always so many articles in it that inspire me ever month.
this book is about when martha beck was pregnant with her son adam,who has down's syndrome...and some of the quite otherworldly things that happened to her and her family during the pregnancy. also,how adam's very being changed the whole family for the better. (they had previously been extremely driven harvardites)
it's a very unique book and an amazing story...and i love that the fact that it's a true story.
well,that's enough for now. i hear a pint of ben and jerry's hollering for me...
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though in Danielle Steel's case...methinks she deserves to be judged harshly, seeing as how the woman has made bundles of money on crappy novels! and I'm jealous. *laugh*
anyway, enjoy your ben&jerry's. that call cannot be refused. ;)
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