Reading
We only have one computer at home. It's starting to feel as frustrating as only having one TV was when I was a kid. When Older Son is home for the summer from Big State University, we're going to set his up, also. Then we'll have two, and oh the blogging I will do when not constrained by Other People!
When it's not My Turn on the internet, I have been reading Karen Armstrong's "The History of God" again. I didn't get all the way through it the first time. It's a great thick book, I checked it out of the library long before I started reading it, and then the library only allowed one renewal. So, I checked it out again about two weeks ago, but this time I started reading it right away.
I'm only up to the very early Christian era, but I'm once again I find the concepts in the book uplifting and enlightening. Armstrong takes a respectful tone toward all the religions she describes, but is naturalistic in her interpretation: God has evolved; God has manifested itself to different peoples in different forms throughout history based almost entirely on what those people were drawn to and what worked for them. When a people's understanding of God stopped working, for them, God changed to meet their new needs. The main idea I have taken from the book, both the first time and now, is that God can't be described or known...God can only be experienced.
In more mundane matters, all of my big projects at work are stalled in other people's garages right now, so I'm struggling to fill my time with useful things. While I've been waiting, I've automated invoice processing for a large vendor, eliminating several hours of data entry each week for the AP person who processes that vendor. She's pleased, and I'm working on two more vendors for the other processor. They'll be my buddies big time when I get it all done.
Little boy got his picture taken at school, and it came out pretty good for a change. He's a good looking guy, but he's not exactly photogenic. He can't do a natural looking smile for anything, and he always raises his eyebrows ^^ WAY HIGH when he smiles. In the school pictures, while the smiles are still a little forced, he's not doing the eyebrow thing. When he's about 18, I'm sure I'll look back on his high eyebrow smile as adorable.
I've been doing really well at cooking dinners, but not so good at taking leftovers for lunch. We really can't afford for me to eat out every day. And it's not like the leftover food isn't good - I'm a pretty decent cook. It's just...not what I want for lunch. I rarely know what I want for lunch, so I usually just eat at Wendy's, even though that's not what I want for lunch, either. Tomorrow, I will force myself to take Shrimp Fettucine Alfredo for lunch.
When it's not My Turn on the internet, I have been reading Karen Armstrong's "The History of God" again. I didn't get all the way through it the first time. It's a great thick book, I checked it out of the library long before I started reading it, and then the library only allowed one renewal. So, I checked it out again about two weeks ago, but this time I started reading it right away.
I'm only up to the very early Christian era, but I'm once again I find the concepts in the book uplifting and enlightening. Armstrong takes a respectful tone toward all the religions she describes, but is naturalistic in her interpretation: God has evolved; God has manifested itself to different peoples in different forms throughout history based almost entirely on what those people were drawn to and what worked for them. When a people's understanding of God stopped working, for them, God changed to meet their new needs. The main idea I have taken from the book, both the first time and now, is that God can't be described or known...God can only be experienced.
In more mundane matters, all of my big projects at work are stalled in other people's garages right now, so I'm struggling to fill my time with useful things. While I've been waiting, I've automated invoice processing for a large vendor, eliminating several hours of data entry each week for the AP person who processes that vendor. She's pleased, and I'm working on two more vendors for the other processor. They'll be my buddies big time when I get it all done.
Little boy got his picture taken at school, and it came out pretty good for a change. He's a good looking guy, but he's not exactly photogenic. He can't do a natural looking smile for anything, and he always raises his eyebrows ^^ WAY HIGH when he smiles. In the school pictures, while the smiles are still a little forced, he's not doing the eyebrow thing. When he's about 18, I'm sure I'll look back on his high eyebrow smile as adorable.
I've been doing really well at cooking dinners, but not so good at taking leftovers for lunch. We really can't afford for me to eat out every day. And it's not like the leftover food isn't good - I'm a pretty decent cook. It's just...not what I want for lunch. I rarely know what I want for lunch, so I usually just eat at Wendy's, even though that's not what I want for lunch, either. Tomorrow, I will force myself to take Shrimp Fettucine Alfredo for lunch.
3 Comments:
I admire your perserverance in continuing to read a daunting book. I tend to read fiction only, but have a goal to read three non-fiction books this year. Mine will probably be short!
I have the same dilemma with eating out for lunch. Sometimes I feel like I can't afford to give th children school lunch money, then catch myself eating out at lunch, which is usually MUCH more expensive than school lunch. Oh the guilt.
Well, finally the comments section is working.
Um... I forgot what I was going to say.
Something about how kids sabotage their school pictures. Nothing helpful.
Isn't amazing how much we rely on TV and the internet, I would hate to think how much more I would get done if it were not around. I would also be a depressed TBM too not learning about native american DNA, maybe in time I would have though.
So many books to read, and Karen Armstrong's book sounds like another one.
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