June 24, 2006
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A Whole Week!
Wow, it’s been almost a week since I’ve posted an update. “Where has she gone? Why has she left us in limbo to wonder about the minute and dull details of her life?” Well, wonder no more! The Vapid Express has just pulled into the station!
This past Wednesday, we went to Del Grosso’s, which is a small, friendly amusement park with a water park attached. We have been taking the kids there since N. and D. were wee, little things, so it’s filled with memories as well as with tasty funnel cake and cotton candy booths. We had a wonderful time and were thoroughly exhausted when we got home, but at least I wasn’t sick to my stomach since I had judiciously avoided all the nauseating rides. I always swore I wouldn’t be one of those people who got sick on rides, but now I am, and I can’t do a blessed thing about it. I’ve discovered I also get sick when I lie on a raft in the pool for too long. Sign me up for a tour in the Navy!
It’s been chilly and rainy off and on, so the pool hasn’t gotten as much use as one might suspect. I’ve been using it to exercise my pathetic, weakling arms. I straddle a noodle and do all sorts of arm things. Then, the next day, I can hardly move my arms. Pain means the muscle is damaged, and when the muscle heals, it gets bigger, right? Well, I read that somewhere. Perhaps by the end of summer, I’ll be able to bench press a jar of pickles! (Okay, I exaggerate…)
We’ve had Molly the dog this week while her parents were on vacation. (As they refer to Molly as “my sister,” I can refer to them as “her parents”!) She’s been a good dog all week–just about the lowest maintenance and stress dog one could imagine– but I’m still glad we don’t have a dog. We take her home today and also return the parakeets for their summer visit to their grandparents.
Libby leaves for her first week of camp ever tomorrow. It’s at Camp Kanesatake, a local Christian camp. She’s got a few girls she knows who are going, but I hope she’ll make lots of new friends as well. I never went to summer camp (we camped a lot as a family instead), so it’s a novel experience for me, one I’ve only lived vicariously through books and movies.
I finished reading James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. It’s the book about Shangri-La. Usually I like books for their stories, and this book is no exception. However, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a book that fits so well into the time period for which it was written. The story of discovering a utopia where everything is in moderation, a utopia established to preserve the best of mankind’s advances, set in the time period between the two World Wars fascinates me. Also, Conway’s (the main character) choice–to become the ruler of Shangri-La or to return to the “real” world– and the ideas of what makes a prison have set me to thinking even more.
Well, I suppose I’ve prattled enough. I’ll leave you with a question: what’s a book you’ve read that’s made you think?
Comments (13)
To Kill A Mockingbird…
I read a book about an Australian woman who was taken on a walkabout by a tribe of Aboriginies. They called themselves the Real People, and she had thought she was going out to meet them to receive some kind of recognition for work she had done for the Aboriginies, never dreaming their “honor” would be to live with them for weeks. I think it was fictional. It was about their faith in the Creator, and living by that faith. It wasn’t a Christian book but it did make me think. I thought I should have remembered the title, for one.
Hi Mary, “I’m still glad we don’t have a dog?” What a wild comment.
I know I couldn’t live withOUT mine. lol.
The Mary Pride books: THE WAY HOME and ALL THE WAY HOME sure made me think.
Anna Karenina. Made me think, “why did I just read 800 pages of this”? I couldn’t figure out what the author’s point was.
Well, I just read the DaVinci Code. It made me think, “why do people take this seriously, it isn’t even a good mystery novel?” Anyway, as I’ve gotten older, I get sick on rides too. I wonder if that’s a common problem for people?
I have read a lot of books that made me think. Picking one out is hard to do! The one that I read in the last year which made me think the most was probably The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard.
Thanks for your commments on my post. I re-read what I wrote this evening and thought how uninteresting it was. Hmmm. I guess it’s been a while and I am a bit rusty. But it was nice to see your name there!
I agree with kid, I too get sick on rides. If I ride anything that spins I’m sick as a dog! Glad your family had fun!
Walden Pond.
Hey, I sent you a word doc with all my pictures, but I’m not sure if it actually went out (stupid computers)… Did you get them? I sent them from my mom’s account, so it won’t show my email address.
Hey! that amusement park sounds so fun! I read lots of books, but I guess one of my favorites is the Ragamuffin Gospel, by Manning. yep…that’s up there in my top ten…..and its been read recently.
Dune.
As a child, I always wanted a camp expierence like “Parent Trap.” I thought it would be so cool to find a long lost twin somewhere. Book that made me think…there are so many! In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham is one that quickly comes to mind. Makes me think how well God can and does equip us for the circumstances and situations in our lives. We just have to use the tools He gives us.
Thanks for the note back by the way…God bless!
Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow…
So, Libby’s off for camp for the first time, eh? Tell her to watch out for bees…Last year at the music camp I’m at now, I got stung, of all places, my finger. Hard to play violin with a swelled-up finger…=)
Peace Like a River…