Published January 30, 2008 by

Smarty pants

As I seem to be on a posting spree today, let me go one more.

There is an interesting post here about How to read books above your level.

I am unsure if I agree 100% with what the guy is saying, but I do know that the introduction is what propelled me through Dorian Gray (even if it isn’t that difficult) and it was worth every minute. I came out throughly depressed, but slightly awed, so it all balances out.

My simple advice is to read those more difficult books when you’ve got enough time on your hands to not be thinking about other things. Pretty darn obvious.

For example: Do not try and read a Dostoevsky when you are organising a wedding. It just doesn’t work.

Books

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Published January 30, 2008 by

Hair

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Today I got half my hair cut off. It is blissfully light. I have been meaning to do this ever since the wedding was over. New photo in the sidebar and on the About page (Which is a new thing might I add – I have finally succumbed).

Life

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Fantastic

fantasticmrfoxOh my gosh. I found this totally by accident. It’s like the best Roald Dhal book ever!!! (Except George’s Marvelous Medicine would come a close second). And Wes Anderson, Cate Blanchet, Bill Murray… this means that they won’t even destroy it, it’ll be freaking amazing. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This is almost more exciting than Tim Burton set to do Alice in Wonderland!

Movies

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Whine

I had a brief look on the Age website today and see something about Wayne Carey – usually I wouldn’t give a stuff but I clicked, ‘police report‘ and was amazed to see they actually publish those things.

I was more amused that, “…her boyfriend of over two years smashed a whine glass on her mouth”

Surely women don’t nag that much?

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Morning stockpile musings

How great is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you,
which you bestow in the sight of men
on those who take refuge in you.
Psalm 31:19 (NIV)

I was going to jump on the bandwagon of asking the following questions:

More blessing?
Does that line up with who I know God to be?
Do we expect God to be fair?

but some of it just makes sense.

I was going to approach thinking about this in relation to song and worship and life and worship but I don’t think it is quite relevant.

The Message paraphrase touts ‘those who fear you’ as ‘worship’.

So if fearing God is worship (or part of it) then what does that look like exactly?

And the poetics of God “storing up goodness” is also interesting.

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