Treasures Shelf Week VIII & A Trip To Washington D.C.

The Treasure Shelf Week VIII

12) Re-read The Great Divorce

(C.S. Lewis)

Full Text

13) The Man Who Was Thursday 

G.K. Chesterton

Chapters 1 & 2

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The beginnings of a new compost adventure

Breakfast for dinner

Potato Pancakes!!

Thursday evening was spent in Smithfield with a new friend enjoying incredibly delicious food, fascinating conversation, wonderful music and a lovely spring walk!

 On Friday, I drove up with my oldest friend Melody, her sister Heather and cousin Jill (also an old friend who I haven't seen in several years) to D.C. to celebrate Melody's birthday. 

We spent Saturday afternoon at the Library of Congress!

 (As those of you who know me well can imagine, I was in a state of speechless happiness for most of the day :) 

(They have large portions of Thomas Jefferson's Library on display!!)

(The Main Reading Room)

On Sunday, Melody and Heather went rock climbing and Jill and I went to wonder about the Eastern Market. There were gorgeous carvings, fresh smelling soaps, fascinating old maps, handwoven rugs and silk scarves, flowers and fresh fruit. It was all so lovely. 

Then we found a coffee shop where we settled down to read and talk for a few hours. 

Then came (perhaps) my favorite part of the trip: a bookstore so happy that my powers of expression fail with delight. Books on books on books, piled everywhere but carefully organized and helpfully marked with scraps of paper directing in old handwriting to the particular location of a well loved author ("Emily Dickinson under the radiator" or "Sir Walter Scott over the radio") It was full to the brim with all the best authors in a variety of editions and reasonably priced. 

I could very happily live there. 

Treasure Shelf Week VII

10) The Prince 

(Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Final 24 Chapters

11) On the Incarnation
(St. Athanasius)
Full Text

Bits and Pieces of Life these days

The Treasure Shelf: Weeks V & VI

The Treasure Shelf: Weeks V & VI

8) Phantastes

(George MacDonald)

The Last 15 Chapters

"I knew now, that it is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where tow love, it is the loving of each other, and not the being loved by each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that liveth, power over any soul beloved, even if the soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad."

9)Brothers Karamazov 

(Fyodor Dostoevsky) 

Book 1 (Chapters 1-10) and Book II (Chapters 1-4)

10) The Prince 

(Niccolo Machiavelli)

The First 2 Chapters

Quotes to follow!

Also, this song belongs on the Treasure Shelf. It was sung as the offertory during an all around amazing service at church today!