the domestic zoo » books http://thedomesticzoo.com Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:31:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 eternal life in the midst of time http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/10/14/eternal-life-in-the-midst-of-time/ http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/10/14/eternal-life-in-the-midst-of-time/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:40:39 +0000 emily http://thedomesticzoo.com/?p=4634 “We are always between morning and evening,   between Sunday and Sunday, between Easter and Easter, between the two comings of Christ. The experience of time as end gives an absolute importance to whatever we do now, makes it final, decisive. The experience of time as beginning fills all our time with joy…”

chapter 3, ‘The Time of Mission’

]]> http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/10/14/eternal-life-in-the-midst-of-time/feed/ 0 photo post: my books runneth over http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/04/03/photo-post-my-books-runneth-over/ http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/04/03/photo-post-my-books-runneth-over/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:41:00 +0000 emily http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/04/03/photo-post-my-books-runneth-over/ My upside-down room has finally gained some sense of order, and I’ve repurposed an old lamp and ottoman into a comfy little reading corner. Right now I’m reading For the Life of the World, which is amazing and I cannot recommend it more highly. A great book for spiritual growth; Dad and I are hopefully going to be reading and discussing it together. I’m also reading Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. It’s cute and sweet and cat-ish, all things that I love.

quiet

I bought the rabbit statue shortly after Rex died. It didn’t feel right not to have a bunny in my room anymore. Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Treasury is one of the many, many books that I’ve picked up recently and have not yet had time to read. Though if this rainy weather keeps up, I might just get down to reading them all.

My coffee table is covered in books, too. And speaking of the book at hand, I was hoping to go for a hike today: it’s overcast and drizzly, but the trees shelter hikers from most of the precipitation. Then I discovered that our local state park doesn’t open until Memorial Day. C’mon, we’re supposed to be New Englanders. Not wimps.

And now the only thing I need is…another bookshelf.

]]> http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/04/03/photo-post-my-books-runneth-over/feed/ 2 I’ve been awake for over 26 hours…and yet I still find time to blog (priorities, people) http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/03/09/ive-been-awake-for-over-26-hoursand-yet-i-still-find-time-to-blog-priorities-people/ http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/03/09/ive-been-awake-for-over-26-hoursand-yet-i-still-find-time-to-blog-priorities-people/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:40:00 +0000 emily http://thedomesticzoo.com/2009/03/09/ive-been-awake-for-over-26-hoursand-yet-i-still-find-time-to-blog-priorities-people/ I watched the latest BSG episode twice. I still can’t believe that this amazing show is almost over. *sniff* Guess I’ll just have to watch it all over again…

Went to see Watchmen this afternoon with Stephen. I really, really loved it, but then again, I am a die-hard fan of the novel. I can’t really imagine appreciating it fully without having first read the book, to be honest. And Rorschach was just…amazing. Seriously.

Then we came home and Hannah decided that we should watch Homeward Bound. I never really cry during movies, but this one is a guaranteed tear jerker and I’m PMS-ing this week so I just about lost it during that final scene. Lordy. That movie gets me every. single. time.

In not-movie-related things, I’m about halfway through Witches Abroad. I think I want Nanny Ogg to be my grandmother.

Yesterday I took a two-mile walk in a long sleeved tee. Today it snowed. March: comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, and in between goes through some weird kind of split-personality disorder.

I need to get to bed. Stephen and I are leaving for Boston around 2:30 tomorrow for the Flogging Molly concert. It’s going to be pretty rockin’.

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