School read. So far so good.
So ends this meditative, lingering experience, with this quote from Rumi. Appropriate for our current time. #NFNovember #book1
So ends this meditative, lingering experience, with this quote from Rumi. Appropriate for our current time. #NFNovember #book1
Sooo excited to be shelving the used book section at the shop today 🥲❤️🙏
#WeeklyFavorites
I haven‘t been reading much bit I am glad I read and finished the tagged yesterday. It made my week!
“Slowly, over time, God had moved further and further away, until He was eventually nothing more than an idea - and someone else‘s idea, at that.”
No, it‘s not as good as Our Fathers, but this story about a young woman and her 12 year old daughter, falling under the spell of The Prophet, pulled me in from the first page and I read it in a day!
Easiest bingo I ever got! Started this book over coffee this morning only to get to page 5 of the introduction to see an underline. So I flip through, and yup, I already read this 🤦🏻♀️🤣 It is relieving to know that I at least remember read books once I start to re-read them.
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
This was my first intro to Amy-Jill Levine, and I‘m definitely planning to read more from her. How can you not read on when the intro begins with the sentence: “When I was a child, my ambition was to be pope.” 😂 This, from a Jewish New Testament scholar.
Levine offers a fresh, much-needed perspective on Jesus and his New Testament context. She emphasizes that Christians tend to interpret the New Testament solely through the context of the ⤵️
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This book was the opposite of Betty and I am grateful for that. I needed to quiet my brain. I loved all the small stories of the narrators life. All those thoughts you have that you file away, that then pop up later. Some are profound, enlightening and instrumental to your past, while others are just bits of fluff, insignificant observations. #Ozfiction
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme
📖 The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation by Ian Mortimer
#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead
Love love walking barefoot on the beach- but today i walked around my school building(shoes on!) noticing,listening,touching,reveling in the natural world around me.It was a windy day,with leaves swirling all around me. 💨🍁🌺🗿🪶🐦⬛ Many “altars.” #NFNovember