I talked to two people back-to-back this morning at the YMCA. One has been out of work for months. His excited comment: “I may actually get to go to work on Monday!” The other person’s cynical and rather angry comment: “Well, I’ve got to go to work now!” Interesting contrast…
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Just saw this amusing line in John Grisham’s The Appeal…
He was from Atlanta. If you’re from the big city of Atlanta and you find yourself in the outback, then it’s important to remind everyone there that you are indeed from Atlanta. (p. 151)
Funny. True, but funny…
The lovely and gracious “Mrs. Just Charlie” was on a quest today to find some books for her class at school. So I got to tag along. And while I was tagging along, I also came away with some goodies of my own to add to the reading shelf!
From the local library…
- A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher by William A. Cohen. The first graduate of Peter Drucker’s Ph.D. program shares life lessons from Drucker.
From the local Wal-Mart (Books from Wal-Mart?!?!?)…
- The Appeal by John Grisham. The newest legal thriller from the master of the genre. I’m trying to read more fiction along with everything else these days.
From one of our almost-local Barnes & Noble stores…
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Hey, what can I say? I was in the children’s section after all! I was looking for some of my favorites from bygone days, namely the Brains Benton series of mysteries, the Happy Hollisters series, and Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective. I also thought about going through the list of the Caldecott and Newbery award winners as part of this year’s reading plan. That still might happen!
- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade. Warrior-poets…no need to say anything else!
Breaking news! Hold the presses!
I just heard from my brother that my dad uncharacteristically voted for a Republican! WOW! Unusual day of voting in these parts!
I held my nose and did the unthinkable…
Let’s put it this way: My dad would be proud of the way I voted. (Well, maybe not…because since he is a Yellow Dog Democrat and all that, he’s kind of between Barack and a Hillary place himself! Get it? A rock and…well, you know!).
Let’s just say that my vote in the Super Tuesday primary wasn’t a vote for anyone, but it was a way to vote against her…I mean, against someone else.
Not that it’s going to matter in the long run, by the way…but that’s another post for another day!
Did you vote?
Well, not right now, but it was blinking 12:51.
So why am I up, with the dregs of a pressful of Christmas Blend?
I really don’t know! We had some strong wind come through tonight, and apparently the power went out for a brief minute. Only long enough to turn off things like the microwave, the auto-programmed coffee maker, the computer, the clocks on the phones, stuff like that. So, here I sit. I got up, re-programmed all the clocks, and now I’m wide awake!
Love it when that happens, don’t you?!?!?
From Keillor’s The Book of Guys…
In America, you don’t have to know what you’re doing in order to do what you’re doing. You become a holy man by learning to act holy. The furrowed brow, the shambling gait, the vacuous modesty, the weird verbless speech, and Abbot Bob has mastered the act beautifully, but one look in his eyes tells you that nobody is home, he is a vacant shrine. (p.11)
You regular readers of this little attempt at a blog – all two of you – will know that I fancy myself an avid reader. I love books! Always have. Right now I’m working through Garrison Keillor’s The Book of Guys, just for fun. I never would have picked up the book except for a couple of mentions in John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart.
What I love about books, about reading, is that there are often analog hyperlinks to other things. Call it serendipity. Call it synchronicity. Call it whatever you want. But there is a world of links outside cyberspace. Go figure…
I’m not endorsing or opposing a candidate, but I found the lead in this article interesting, to say the least…
Mike Huckabee learned how to be a politician in church.
Very interesting, kind of, well, sad…
Your mileage may vary, as usual…