contemplativeAfter dinner I read and now I am writing in one of my online diaries. Carol has gone to bed for the night and I have been reading the novel, “City On Fire” by Hallberg in our dining room. I plan to go to bed around 11 o’clock PM tonight.
This afternoon around 3 o’clock PM I went to our Credit Union and then I visited a near by thrift store in search of used books. I found these used books this afternoon to ADD to our family library-
“Reading Rooms” America’s Foremost Writers Celebrate Our Public Libraries with Stories, Essays, Poems and Memoirs Edited by Susan Allen Toth & John Coughlan
“The Boy Detective” A New York Childhood a Memoir by Roger Rosenblatt (I have in our library another memoir written by Rosenblatt titled, "Coming Apart: A Memoir Of The Harvard Wars Of 1969".)
“The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism by Ross King ( I have already two editions of this book. This book is one of my favorite books on the Impressionist Art movement in Paris around the turn of century.)
“The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions” by Karen Armstrong
“A Free Life” a novel by Ha Jin
“Triumph of The Spider Monkey” short stores by Joyce Carol Oates
“Fat Man In A Middle Seat” Forty Years Of Covering Politics” A Memoir by Jack W. Germond
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/us/jack-germond-political-reporter-of-the-old-school-dies-at-85.html?_r=0
I suppose I will close to read until I get tired. I can still hear outside tonight the wind howling. This coming Saturday we are suppose to get six inches of snow. There is no way out.
"[12] Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
[13] And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
[14] But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
[15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
[16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
[17] Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
[18] But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." Second Corinthians 3:12-18