Teaser Tuesday - July 29

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

The pain of her relationship with Bruno lay in separation - not just in times and distances but sometimes, she felt, in the very fact that they were different beings. Even together they were apart.

From Sebastian Faulks A Possible Life about choices but I'm still unsure what it's really about! I need to re-read and study - for example - this review.

Mutterings - July 27

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Fish:: Babel
2. Dreaming :: Floating
3. Living :: Fighting
4. Expectations :: Confounding
5. Mug :: China
6. Jacket :: Potato
7. Bowl :: Rice
8. Confession :: Truth
9. Socks :: Cat!
10. Tank :: Trap

I'm just finishing off preparation for taking a service - preaching and prayers this morning - and those first few responses appear to be still in that mode of thinking!

Mutterings - July 20

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Strong :: Man
2. Bathing :: Beauty
3. Title :: Lord
4. Tick Tock :: Hickery Dock
5. Dispute :: Employment
6. Magazine :: Explosion
7. Stupid! :: Silly!
8. Safely :: Traverse
9. Reposition :: Marketing
10. So wrong :: Wrong-headed

Mutterings - July 13

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Joke :: Pun
2. Away :: Manger
3. Reaction :: Chemical
4. High :: Kite
5. Movie :: Frame
6. Decide :: Meet
7. Afternoon :: Faun (Debussy)
8. Contrarian :: Obstinate
9. Understand :: Sympathise
10. Zone :: War

Teaser Tuesday - July 8

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

There was not a drawer or a shelf. There was not a logical place to put a pen, there was no logic to any of it.

A final teaser from Ann Patchett's State of Wonder - exploring someone else's office deep in the Amazonian jungle.

Mutterings - July 6

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Onion :: Layers
2. Greek :: Temple
3. Construct :: Language
4. Crunch :: Credit
5. Bottom :: Weaver (Shakespeare!)
6. Cream :: Scone
7. Slamming :: Deck
8. Jerk :: Pork
9. Closed :: Envelope
10. Texture :: Hatched

Teaser Tuesday - July 1

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

An opinion isn't one thing or the other: it is neither science nor faith, but has a little bit of either one. It is a rationalization bolstered up by some orthodoxy which you happen to respect which naturally starves the mind instead of feeding it (and that is what people who have no faith imagine faith does, but they don't know what they are talking about, because faith is a virtue and active habit which cannot even pretend to rationalize anything: it seeks what is beyond reason).

I'm back on Thomas Merton and 'Run to the Mountain' Journals (Volume One 1939-1941).