Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. -Lemony Snicket
Creation has been given us by God as our living space, as the scene of our labor and our leisure, in which we find both the necessities and the superfluities of life, the beauty of images and sounds, which we need precisely as much as we need food and clothing.
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Life of Service in a Mexican Jail - Jordan and Sullivan
The Elegance of a Hedgehog - Muriel Banbery
A Fine Balance - Rohintin Mistry
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Books Read 2011
Middlemarch - Eliot
The Reading Promise - Ozma
Detectives in Togas - Winterfeld
The Big Wave - Buck
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Robinson
On the Bedside Table: 2010
A Year of Magical Thinking- Didion
English Fairy Tales - F.A. Steele
Twenty - Four Days before Christmas - L'Engle
A Child's Christmas in Wales - Thomas
The Thanksgiving Visitor and A Christmas Memory - Capote
Miracles - Wilde
Comp Tales - Haswell/Lu
A Map of LIfe - Sheed
On the Banks of Plum Creek - Wilder
An Arsonists Guide to Writer's Homes in New England - Clarke
Parched - Heather King
The Lost Hero - Riordan
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. -Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
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