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Re reading Yehuda Berg's The Power of Kabbala ... as much in myth few understand the parallels to kabbala ... CS Lewis got grasp of the tale 've Ide ...
 
aThis is an old book now, but so bright and sad. It is a true story, "Mr. God This Is Anna" by Fynn.
Set in pre-world war England. One abused run away child gathered in by caring people and the adventures she and Fynn
made, or more to the point adventures that Anna made happen. How they grew each other up, meaning Anna's growing Fynn
up in his knowledge of Mr. God. She asked questions that made their Pastor walk on the other side of the street to avoid her.

Her ideas of God are so unreal to be disguised revelation couched in the answers she already had when she asked the question.

It is a beautiful real life story, now out of print. I learned a lot and it is energizing so don't read it before bed.
However, she dies after falling from a tree while rescuing a cat. And states it (death) is like turning inside out.
She felt that we are really angels and when you died the angel inside turns inside out to be fully revealed.

Did I say that right? Oh yes, we are supposed to living like God's Boy did. If we did that's all we need to know and do.

Fynn almost loses all his faith because of her death and he went off to war blaming and accusing Mr. God. On returning he goes to where she is buried, though it wasn't marked. But, he did find her because they had scattered seeds all over the grave area.
and he found bright red poppies were her marker. He started to laugh and finally understood what Anna had meant.
Then he was sure he could hear Anna and Mr. God laughing too.
Ann was not lost after all. He was found.

.... That is my remembering and I smile as I write this. How can I not?

My three books arrived today. Good reading ahead...
 
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Hilary said:
Did your Dad also like P. G. Wodehouse? My husband is reading some Jeeves stories and finds similarities in the tone and humour.
Who would have thought that 100 year-old books could be so much FUN!
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We loved P.G. Wodehouse. I had probably read most of his books by the time I was 14 or 15, I'd think. I did a lot of reading to my dad in his last couple of years when he went totally blind. He didn't like "books on tape", but he liked my voice, knew I'd read him whatever he asked, so I read to him for hours. We also liked the Bandy Papers, and the travel adventures of a Jersey zookeeper, Gerald Durrell. I used to beg for "no two books with accents in them in a row"...
 
What a kindness, Bette. I'm glad that you shared interest in the same kinds of literature during that time together.
 
Just read The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg.

It is a lovely little book if you are looking for something light and sweet without being cloying.
 
At the moment I'm reading "Birdmania - A Remarkable Passion for Birds" by Bernd Brunner - rec'd as a Xmas gift. Described as "An exquisitely beautiful book ... These stories about birds are ultimately reflections on the curious nature of humanity itself". Lots of snippets about our fascination with birds over the course of history. I'm just a small way into it, but enjoying it.
 
Just finished The Cellist of Sarajevo ... when the Arrow reverted to Eli Sah ... the song departed ... due to avarice ...

What one can learn from what's past, present and loaming ... that's the dirt on it ! Something may come forth ... if you didn't get a critical part ... do the diggings ...

If supremely severed ... you may avoid the void ...
 
Have just begun to read Genius Born of Anguish. Henri Nouwen seems to be a fascinating individual. A genius with such a diverse field of interests, talents, and skills. Yet apparently he was also a tortured man in that he was unable to find the romantic love that he sought after.
 
Re reading the Book of Secrets ... Vassanji; a unknown observation of all that which we don't know ... tis an extensive small thing like the little-big man atrocity ... put down of primal stuff without study and examination? Tis self indicative of crude psyches of psychopaths that we share ... a tome all shot full of holes ... if you read between the lines ... adept? Redaction of a' depth or normally things change ... from Sikh in down the subcontinents contribution as Indian or AB original ... metaphorically!

Just to support unknowns ...
 
This thread has been quiet. Reading an s-f anthology called Federations. Some nice stories by current s-f writers, all set in futuristic space civilizations (hence the title). That's about as unified as the theme gets. Beyond that, they are all over the map from dark dramas to comedies to the one I read last night which is kind of weird and will need a second pass. One complaint: a couple authors got lazy and used stories they had written in their established "universes" so I think the significance of them is kind of lost to those not familiar with those universes (e.g. Orson Scott Card wrote a story that is part of the back story for his "Ender" series, on which the movie Ender's Game is based). Not sure I'd recommend it to anyone who wasn't an s-f geek to start with.
 
Re reading the Story of Philosophy since many do not believe there is any mind (love of knowledge and wisdom as extened concern) beyond the indoctrinated and thus the eternal is fixed ... don't go any further ... than the corollary of the parabolic Lei as blossoming in the mind of lighter stuff ... Gee Zus can that be still out there?

Contrary to the will of the world on compaction and compressing of stories and lies that blossom about deep space ...

There are wild benefits out there ... but one should know the holes in the system! Indeterminate articles on a void dance?

Relax it is just word ... poorly misunderstood regarding the source Eire ... of making something of nothing anonymously ... Will du Rants issue ... mark of something to hitch a thought to ... for those that believe not in thought process ... going forward with care?

Some go for a mindless plunge as they believe psyche is beyond belief ... thus the trashing of -osis and -isms of things out there ... and Osiris is closed as the myth of a dead mind ... apocalyptic-ally ...

This may be represented by one of those Muses that carries a masque under her arm ... with a nature of tragic comedy ... life itself as the conflict about thought goes on!

Some don't and thus the underlying concept of subtle thinking and layered sub con science ... a windy thing all of its own ... like emotional brain storms ... but who'd believe it?

Eris it is ...
 
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I am reading. Being a Dog. Alexandra Horowitz

It is a fascinating look at dogs, their noses, their training........
 
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I am reading. Being a Dog. Alexandra Horowitz

It is a fascinating look at dogs, their noses, their training........
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We could go on indeterminably regarding smells ...

There are even those that believe the depth of a parable contains stinks ... like the Legends of swine!

Some people cannot relate as they isolate bad Nous as thoughts about themselves they don't like to face ... thus sub-con science? Some dirty turning necessary ... plowshares?
 
I'm just reading The Inner Lives of Animals by Peter Wohlleben. I wanted to read the The Weather Detective first, but it was out on loan so I have to wait. What fascinates me is how all of nature is connected in the smallest of ways. Last winter, I became a rapt observer of my bird feeder and soon realized the impact it had on all the life around it. Became hooked.
 
Autism is automatically tripped by stumbling over de light ... which be falls us?

Am reading The Snow Queen (Cunningham)... few can make heads nor tails of it due to the crossing of thoughts (trans genre) and folks addicted to things wiping out thoughts and leaving washout is the dark soul of mankind ... psyche is an alien icon to study ... being it appears to be larger than it looks ! Sects and diverse means play a part ... creating binomials ...
 
Reading the CBC News this AM about brakes being put on in Ontario's anti scalping law ... and thus the corporate freedoms go on ... and the po' f olques will continue to be skinned alive by the powerfully rich-physically ... as fuzzed!

Tis a hairy realm as they forget the ruse/roue's about those have been given much have much expected from them ... thus the hollowed out pig's kin ... nothing there! Biblical satyr about swine and good luck?

The powerful will think differently ... you can beta'n onite ... po' indignant indigenous ... treated like Sami's ... told by curios that they don not exist! And the curious didn't even look ... just accepted it on blind fates ... spinners, weavers and clippers as Moira ... or Myra ... dependent on the spot you're at! Some are veritably isolated ... dun gone ... at least for a bit!

Dipping ... we don't know where ... as we prefer to not know and thus knotty Eire ... twisted satyrs?

Perhaps the whir of life or Errs in the pines ... source of ephrine ... a brain stirring element from the trees and yet mortals say trees have no compounds of thought or thought depressants ... they cannot connect?

But then the roots ...partisans ...

When do the masses lighten up enough to leave our present state? Can one plunge rite through it as deemed in passage? Thus encrypted in de tome ... and second thought as Beta Moments ...
 
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I'm reading Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto which was the winner of Canada Reads this year. It was chosen by my book club because of the local ties with the author's family in southern Alberta.
I don't usually care much for non-fiction nor war stories but I'm giving it a go!
 
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