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Faber and Faber (UK) edition of Amos Tutuola’s “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” (1952).
See my GoodReads review of “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/303496.The_Palm_Wine_Drinkard...
9.5.2014: Definitely good advice from Bob Newhart via Goodreads Quote of the Day. ^_^
Galaxy s5, Photojojo lens: polarized, PicsArt
Happy Caturday!
Lilybelle - 4 months old
Whuli-Bear is finally up and running!! Yay!
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...and wait, and let it come.”
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”
“Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.”
- Yogi Bhajan -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/349508.Yogi_Bhajan
" #15/30 in set: www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/sets/72157632671954510/
"The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn’t make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful - great and full - that you are alive, and you enjoy it.”
- Yogi Bhajan -
FBI Story, snagged from my regular coffee shop, which is selling its paperbacks for fifty cents. Twice the cover price, but I think I got a deal.
This thing is wonderfully, insanely, beautifully, propaganda for the FBI and the good ol' US of A, with just a touch of smut to make it gold.
I am in love with this cover, PS.
...you will be at the beginning of what you should sense”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beginnings-and-endings
MS Zuiderdam heading for Stockholm. Her last stop was St. Petersburg. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Zuiderdam
...inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
“Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.”
- R.D. Laing -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/awakening
Boyce - Turner prize winner and Mackintosh have a connection with Glasgow, go Contemporary or show us some Mackintosh, post it then Tag it with #TP30
...has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...”
- John Geddes, A Familiar Rain -
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
- Marcus Aurelius -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17212.Marcus_Aurelius
Free Art Friday - simple find some FREE art or artwork take a photograph and share with us, post it then Tag it with #TP346
Do you LOVE to Read? Do love knowing reviews before you buy a book? Do you love things that are awesome and not stupid? Then you need to check out goodreads.com
It's amazing! I was on it all day messing around.
Now I have two loves in my life that I can devote all my attention to, Good reads and my beautiful Flickr....
sure I love my wife but flickr or goodreads never cry because we're out of pickles, blame my mother for raising me wrong and then tell me she loves me and shes going to bed in all one sentence!!!
Nope, Flickr nor goodreads never becomes crazy when they get pregnant...
anyways,
go find me and be my friend..
The Summer Reading Club 2014 held by Burnaby Public Library was over. Time to summarize. My 5-year-old read 245 books during the period of June 16th - September 5th. He only missed one day not reading, the day we returned from China. The goodreads stats showed that he had completed reading 501 books/40540 pages. I've set this year's reading challenge as 600 books, he's at 84%. His recent interests are world atlas encyclopedia, "Weird but True" series and some random history reads. Good job, Hanno, keep it up!
Do you need a spider web? Do you need this photo?
This week's quote is "An Artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have." attributed to Andy Warhol. It appears from WikiQuote with a bit more context:
"I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
Aside from the assumption that artists are male, Warhol does seem interested in space. Spider webs are really just space — progressively wrapped up as they age, gathering dust and detritus.
I’ve gathered some of my previous images in Rolling along….
Quote 37 of 40.
Goodreads Description - After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart--the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream. Paul left his stable career, traveled to Georgia, and took his first steps on the Appalachian Trail. What he learned during the next four and a half months changed his life--and will change readers' lives as well.
In "Hiking Through," readers will join Paul on his remarkable 2,176-mile hike through fourteen states in search of peace and a renewed sense of purpose, meeting fascinating and funny people along the way. They'll discover that every choice we make along the path has consequences for the journey and will come away with a new understanding of God's grace and guidance. Nature-lovers, armchair adventurers, and those grieving a loss may not be able to hike the AT themselves, but they can go on this spiritual pilgrimage with a truly humble and sympathetic guide
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My review - Wow...Despite the obvious religious overtones of the book I really loved it. I understood what the author was doing, what he was saying, and it was wonderful. I hated for the book to end, I just wanted to keep hanging on to his every word. Paul was funny, insightful, and a great speaker. I felt like I was right out there with him on the trail. I'm happy he was able to find what he was looking for on the trail.
Today was our first book club meeting of the new year. with The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey as the pick. I found it a slow starter, and pretty tough to read at times for this mom who's experienced two miscarriages, but I ended up falling in love with it.
My favorite quote: "You do not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers."
Submitted for March's TMSH # 15 - Old Time
Goodreads Description - Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.
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My Review - This is one of the saddest books I have ever encountered. I could not imagine what these people went through during that blizzard in 1888. I cried when reading parts of it. This is definatly a must read if you are intrested in Amaerican history. The only reason I gave it 3 stars was because several chapters talked about meterology. I thought that without some sort of flow chart or map it's very hard to understand the conditions in how the blizzard started unless you are a student of meterology. It was a lot of information to try and understand.
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”
- Henri J.M. Nouwen -
youtu.be/uV3pRIRd1b0 here we go a bonus book review. i ended up reading this over a weekend and mostly on the train lol
Fiction Week! Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okarafor From GoodReads (CN: rape, genocide): An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post- apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means “Who Fears Death?” in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny-to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture-and eventually death itself.
Here I am reading A New Beginning by Wendy Pfeffer and Linda Bleck to my daughter's kindergarten class on the vernal equinox. www.goodreads.com/book/show/2722985-a-new-beginning
Clare C. Marshall grew up in rural Nova Scotia. Her Young Adult sci-fi novel "Dreams In Her Head" was nominated for Canada's 2014 Creation of Stories award. She is a full-time freelance editor, book designer, ghostwriter, and web manager. [Source: GoodReads]
Yeah I know I've featured the Magnus Mills book shown on the right in a Daily Bookshot before, but I couldn't resist featuring Three to See the King by Magnus Mills (Flamingo ISBN: 0007110472) again, alongside a book I've just picked up that I've been really wanting to read for a while now - A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland (Granta. ISBN: 9781847080424)
Both locations shown on these covers exemplify what really appeals to me - living in absolute solitude. One is of course the fictional landscape depicted in Mills' fable, in which the principle character lives in a tin hut on a sprawling plain, and the other is the remote Galloway home of Sara Maitland.
Peace. Quiet. Solitude. Maitland's book is all about her search for silence and that's why I'm drawn to it so much. Here's the cover blurb:
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In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country, and, to her surprise, she fell in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent book, in a wonderfully confiding, direct and witty voice, Mailtand describes how she set out to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. She finds her own experiences, both euphoric and dark, mirrored in the accounts of others who have experienced silence - from explorers and mystics to long distance sailors. And she delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairytale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression, and contemporary society's increasing fear of it.
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I guess it's also quite appropriate that I did feature Three to See the King again. It offers me the opportunity to give a timely reminder that Mills' new novel, The Maintenance of Headway, is published next month (August 3rd) by Bloomsbury.
...It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
- Aristotle -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/choice
Illustrate the word choice in a photograph today. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=443
So my mind was seriously blown by this, but as I'm trying to regain my mental faculties, I start wondering about the book. See, there's no note in the box. The name on the box is first initial and last name. I wonder...maybe it's a favorite book? Maybe it was on my Goodreads "to read" list? But it wasn't. Then I thought, maybe it's not another gift, maybe it's a message. In the Internet Ancient Times, back in the days of Gonads and Strife and Drudge dancing and taking off every Zig I was a Morlock. themorlocks.com is super defunct now, though you can still see the front page in the Internet Wayback Machine. I flipped through the book and there wasn't a note or anything. So now I'm wracking my brains based on the last name and address to figure out if I know my Santa, or knew him (I admit I'm assuming a "him" based solely on the writing of the address on the box) back in the day. But the thing is, I didn't know EVERYONE's last names. Santa, does Bomberman mean anything to you? Mega Man? Did I ever send you a parcel of meat? :D I'm trying to think of people I knew who lived in that area, against a list of people whom it could not be (since I know their names) and some who may have but I'm not 100% sure. But since it's been you know, a decade, maybe they moved there from some other area of the country, in which case I'm never going to figure it out, but I feel SO BAD not being able to figure this out considering the COMPLETELY BADASS GIFT you sent me.
I have also considered the possibility that The Time Machine is just a book, it doesn't mean anything, or maybe it means something else, like maybe the person's forum avatar has something to do with it and my Santa has never heard of Lum the Mad or ever went through a period of time with a kitchen appliance with evil eyebrows for an avatar (I had an EvilStandMixer for a while) and it's just a coincidence or it's just nothing and I'm just seriously overthinking this in which case I'll be quite embarrassed.
Well, either way, thank you SO much, mysterious Santa! This is completely awesome. <3 And I'll keep thinking on it, unless you want to reveal yourself. But I think my husband is going to get annoyed with me if I spend any more time fine tuning this post and trying to reverse stalk you (nice looking house, btw). In fact he just came in and said to me "are you ever going to be done with what you're doing?" Soooo I better go.
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- Rumi, Essential Rumi -
“The knowledge of all things is possible”
- Leonardo da Vinci -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/curiosity
Colour my week: Cyan www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=531