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My wife and I took family to the Harmony Hall plantation for a visit today. Old Baptist Hymnals stacked in Harmony Hall Chapel.
Living Room: Writer's References
These pix are a partial (90%) inventory of the books I have accumulated. 75% of them I have not read, and I suspect that I will never live long enough to read them all.
I took these photos so i could start typing up a quick author/title inventory, find duplicates, and hopefully prevent further duplicates from accumulating.
This is what my home is like. Lots of them have been read and are saved for reading again, many more are on my to-do list.
I love books!
This wonderful library is important for its rich, historical collections and for the remarkable, innovative building, which was designed by Henri Labrouste from 1842-50.
Read more about the library here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Sainte-Genevi%C3%...
File name: 11_07_000289
Title: Suffolk University Law School library, Boston
Creator/Contributor: Grant, Spencer, 1944- (photographer)
Date created: 1976
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 35 mm.
Genre: Film negatives; Panoramic photographs
Subjects: Boston (Mass.); Suffolk University. Law School; Students; Universities & colleges; Libraries; Studying; Bookstacks
Notes: Title from photographer caption.
Collection: Spencer Grant Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Spencer Grant
You're in the wrong bookstack Michelle! Michelle Walker (Northumbria Library) doing some stock edit.
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Publication:
[196-?]
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Library Materials,
Microfilming,
African Americans,
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)., Reference Services Division.
Genre(s):
Pictorial Works
Abstract:
Interior view: Mobile camera is in the stack area; a man is standing at a book truck.
Extent:
1 photographic print : 21 x 26 cm.
Technique:
black and white
NLM Unique ID:
101445923
NLM Image ID:
A017326
Permanent Link:
"Don't make decisions based off of emotion."
A kind friend who cares for me deeply said that to me yesterday and I'm not gonna lie, it hit me pretty hard. That's the best piece of advice I've gotten in awhile. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for feelings and am not an advocate for becoming a Fembot (and neither is my friend). I think there is danger in ignoring pain, hurt, bitterness, jealousy and the roots of them all. I know that when I try to cover up how a situation has really made me feel, I end up acting even more crazy than I feared I would have if I had just owned it in the first place.
What you said hurt my feelings. What you did made me feel left out. When you look at me that way, I feel like you're judging me.
Why is that so hard to say to someone or even to admit to myself?
When I don't look at how a situation has truly impacted me, I tend to let my emotions manifest into assumptions about others. And that's a dangerous place to be. It looks a little something like this: "Well, she's a little too sassy for always getting what she wants and has never lifted a finger or worked hard for anything in her life. So basically I'm justified in feeling jealous of her, disliking her and writing her off." Or like this: "Those people have it all together and I don't, so I'm justified in putting up a wall, throwing in the towel and isolating myself."
I don't know about you, but I have a lot of thoughts like this.
And the truth is, it's more hurtful to myself than it is to anyone else. When I write others off and hold onto bitterness, I'm not living a life of love and I can feel the weight of that...I don't even know what to call it...hate? Negativity? Pessimism? Ugliness? Guilt? All of the above?
So here's my solution:
I'll look for the red flag: when I use someone's actions or words as a justification for my own.
I'll stop comparing.
I'll start remembering that even if someone seems like they have it all together, they are probably just as screwed up as me. And they probably need a friend. Who doesn't?.
I'll no longer be fooled by distance and how it can trick me into thinking someone or something or some situation is perfect. It'll keep me from dehumanizing someone. It'll help me find beauty in the fact that we, not matter how different we are, are really all the same: in need of second chances, the benefit of the doubt and a little more grace than usual.
Over the past 2 years I´ve read a wide range of books to inspire me proffesionally. My fav is Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational. Seth Godin is a obvious must. Dan Pink has given proof of why both parts of the brain must be used every single day at work. Some books were not available at photoshoot. If your slightly interested in how life will be be in the coming years, the books presented here will be of tremendous help.
The complete list from top:
Thomas Friedman The World is Flat
Seth Godin Small is the New Big
Steven Levitt/ Stephen Dubner Freakonomics
Seth Godin Tribes
Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind
Dennis Qualman Socialnomics
Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational
Henry Jenkins Convergence Culture
Chris Anderson The Long Tail
Charlene Li/ Josh Bernhoff Groundswell
This wonderful library is important for its rich, historical collections and for the remarkable, innovative building, which was designed by Henri Labrouste from 1842-50.
Read more about the library here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Sainte-Genevi%C3%...
Food/Health
These pix show the drawback of being a book addict that owns a bookstore. It is like being an alcoholic bartender.
Ahhhh Portland, home to Powell's and many other bookstores. Here's how I go wild and crazy on my vacations. Murakami, Leonard, Vandermeer, Scalzi found second hand to be enjoyed first hand in upcoming bookstacks.
The British Museum Reading Room, located at the heart of the Great Court, was designed by Sydney Smirke and opened in 1857 to house the growing library of the British Museum. Constructed of cast iron, concrete, and a papier-mâché dome inspired by the Pantheon, the room’s circular design accommodated thousands of books and readers, with surrounding iron bookstacks and forty kilometers of shelving. It served as the principal reading room of the British Library until the collection relocated to St Pancras in 1997. After restoration, the Reading Room reopened in 2000 for general visitors, later hosting major exhibitions from 2007 to 2013 before closing for archival use until reopening in 2023.
The British Museum, located in Bloomsbury, London, was established in 1753 and opened in 1759 as the world’s first national public museum. Originally housed in Montagu House, it now occupies a grand neoclassical building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, constructed between 1823 and 1852 on the same site. The museum’s encyclopedic collection of over eight million objects spans over two million years of human history, with major highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and the Sutton Hoo treasures--many of which remain the subject of ongoing repatriation discussions.
Zac Harding (bestfriendsrbooks.wordpress.com/) sent me books one through 4.
1. The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate by Joy Crowley, illustrated by Sarah Davis
2. The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith, illustrated by Katz Cowley
3. Moon Cow by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Deidre Copeland
4. The House That Jack Built by Gavin Bishop