Sunday, January 09, 2011

2010 Reading List (includes individual poems and books of the Bible)



"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" was one of the poems I read.

I can't believe I have waited so long to post this
JANUARY
1. "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (short story)
2. Dinner with a Perfect Stranger
FEBRUARY
3. The Bad Back Book
MARCH
4. Church Planting Movements
5. Houses that Changed the World
6. Sarah's Key
7. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by Blake
8. Outliers
APRIL
9. So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
WORDSWORTH
10."Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"
11."The Idiot Boy"
12."It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"
13."I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
14."Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"
15."Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-tree"
16."Lines Written in Early Spring"
17."London, 1802"
18. "Lucy Gray"
19."Ode:Intimation of Immortality"
20."She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
21."Simon Lee"
22."The World is Too Much With Us"
MAY
23."How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Tolstoy
24."Enoch Arden" by Tennyson
COLERIDGE
25."The Eolian Harp"
26."This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
27."Dejection:An Ode"
28."Kubla Khan"
29."The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
30."Christabel"_____________
31. Acts
32. Falling Leaves
33. Romans
34. 1 Corinthians
35. The Quran translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
36. The Prelude by Wordsworth
ROSSETTI
37. "Better Resurrection"
38. "A Birthday"
39. "After Death"
40. "A Christmas Carol"
41. "The Convent Threshold"
42. "De Profundis"
43. "Dream Land"
44. "Goblin Market"
45. "Good Friday"
46. "Maude Clare"
47. "Monna Innominata"
48. "The Prince's Progress"
49. "Remember"
50. "Sister Maude"
51. "The Three Enemies"
52. "Up Hill"
53. "When I am Dead my Dearest"
TENNYSON
54. "Dying Swan"
55. "The Lotos Eaters"
56. In Memoriam A.H.H.
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57. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
JUNE
KEATS
58. "Hyperion: A Fragment"
59. Endymion
HOPKINS
60."God's Grandeur
61. "Pied Beauty"
62. "The Caged Skylark"
63. "The Windhover"
64. "Carrion Comfort"
65. "No Worst"
66. "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
YEATS
67. "A Prayer for My Daughter"
68. "The Cap and Bells"
69. "Down by the Salley Gardens"
70. "Easter 1916"
71. "The Coming of Wisdom with Time"
72. "The Lake Isle of Inisfree"
73. "Lapis Lazuli"
74. "Leda and the Swan"
75. "The Magi"
76. "Memory"
77. "Sailing to Byzantium"
78. "The Second Coming"
79. "The Secret Rose"
80. "September 1913"
81. "Three Things"
82. "The Wheel"
83. "When You Are Old"
84. "The Wild Swans at Coole"
85. "The Fiddler of Dooney"
AUDEN
86. "As I Walked Out One Evening"
87. "The Common Life"
88. "Compline"
89. "Epitaph on a Tyrant"
90. "The Fall of Rome"
91. "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"
92. "In Memory of W.B. Yets"
93. "Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love"
94. "Lullaby"
95. "The More Loving One"
96. "On the Circuit"
97. "Propero to Ariel"
98. "September 1, 1939"
99. "The Shield of Achilles"
100. "Under Which Lyre"
101. "The Unknown Citizen"
102. "Walk After Dark"
LARKIN
103."Annus Mirabilis"
104. "Aubade"
105. "Deceptions"
106. "Essential Beauty"
107. "Far Out"
108. "High Windows"
109. "I Remember, I Remember"
110. "The Importance of Elsewhere"
111. "Is It for Now or for Always"
112. "Long Sight in Age"
113. "Modesties"
114. "The Old Fools"
115. "Story"
116. "Since the Majority of Me"
117. "This Be the Verse"
118. "To Put One Brick Upon Another"
119. "Toads"
120. "Why Did I Dream About You Last Night"
121. "To My Wife"
HEANY
122. "Blackberry-Picking"
123. "Bogland"
124. "Casualty"
125. "Digging"
126. "Death of a Naturalist"
127. "Field Work"
128. "Hailstones"
129. "The Haw Lantern"
130. "Lightenings"
131. "The Ministry of Fear"
132. "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication"
133. "Personal Helicon"
134. "Poets Chair"
135. "Squarings"
136. "Tollund"
137. Idylls of the King by Tennyson
138. Journal of a Solitude
139. Essays of Montaigne, Screech translation
140. Ecce Homo by Nietzsche
141. The Communist Manifesto
142. 2 Corinthians
144. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
145. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
146. Galatians
147. Be Free
148. Ephesians
149. Be Rich
150. Philippians
151. Be Joyful
152. Surprised by Joy
153. Colossians
154. Be Complete
155. Holman New Testament Commentary: Galatians-Colossians
JULY
156. 1 Thessalonians
157. 2 Thessalonians
158. Be Ready
159. 1 Timothy
160. The Picture of Dorian Gray
161. 2 Timothy
162. Titus
163. Philemon
164. Be Faithful
165. Hebrews
166. James
167. War and Peace
AUGUST
168. The Art of Racing in the Rain
169. Captains Courageous
170. The Pursuit of God (a favorite)
171. The Longest Day (amazing book, must read)
172. The History of England: Volume 5
173. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Gandhi
174. 1 Peter
175. Be Hopeful (1 Peter)
176. 2 Peter
177. 1 John
178. 2 John
179. 3 John
180. Jude
181. Be Alert (2 Peter, 2,3 John, Jude)
182. Be Real (1 John)
SEPTEMBER
183. Mein Kampf
184. Seven Story Mountain
185. Revelation
OCTOBER
186. Same Kind of Different as Me
187. Life Application Bible (NIV)
188. The Prewrath Rapture Position Explained: Plain & Simple
189. Final Questions:Vital Questions for Every Person on Earth
190: Be Victorious
NOVEMBER
191. The Worst Hard Time
192. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
193. Man's Search for Meaning
194. Picking Cotton
DECEMBER
195. The Book Thief
196. The Veil
197. The Great Crash of 1929
198. Skeletons on the Zahara
199. Sing a Song of Gladness
200. God is Good
201. A Christmas Carol (audiobook)
202. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
203. Desiring God
204. Devil in the White City
205. The Help
206. Life is Good

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

This is why I usually do it yearly

I am wading through thousands of photos right now. I am caught up with my scrapbooking through December of 2006. Then, I took over 10,000 photos in 2007.  Each day of photos is on our hard drive book with an individual folder. It is going to take FOREVER!

Thus why I usually do it every Christmas vacation, but I couldn't in

2007 - my mom died, and I had to catch up with all I left behind because I was gone all of November
2008 - I'm sure there was a good reason (Maybe looking at my photos will give me a clue :))
2009 - I could not sit up due to my back going out on December 18.
2010 - So far, I did two years of Christmas photos end of 2006 (I had done through Gingerbread houses) and 2007.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Christmas Eve and All is Well

George is at the store for onions. I went to Fred Meyer to avoid the Christmas Ev craziness, and I still needed onions. So funny. Oh well, I wanted to get garlic bread anyway. So, I am cool. Only Samira can come for dinner, but that will be very nice and intimate. I am making a new lasagna recipe. I should go with my tried and true, and I still might. I like it because you don't have to boil the noodles ahead of time.
Anyway, I am loving this season. The week has been free of busyness, and I have just been able to read and do projects like filing all my papers, cleaning the fridge, five cupboards and the pantry, and the guest room closet and desk.  I had to quit today though because my back is sore, but it lasted through four days of bending over. This is a major milestone in my recovery. Yahoo!
I listened to audiobooks (Devil in the White City and The Help) while I did it too!  So, now I must focus my attention on the Christmas Eve dinner. Still hemming and hawing about which lasagna recipe to use. :)
Well, I better get to it. I plan on listening to the Messiah as I prepare this dinner feast. :)
Handel's Messiah: Merry Christmas Eve

The Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth

Chorus

Hallelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.(Revelaton 19:6)

The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelations 11:15)

KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19:16)

Hallelujah!

Friday, December 17, 2010

Dream Board 2011


Dream Board 2011, originally uploaded by carolfoasia.

This was a fun exercise to dream about 2011 in a visual way.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

"Twelve TWEMS A Drumming"

Drum roll please!


My goal is to be done by October 2011. Here are the remaining twelve:


AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1973 Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn (Dec/Jan)
HISTORY
EARLY MODERN (1600 – 1850)
1776 Decline & Fall Roman Empire Gibbon (Jan)
1835 Democracy in America Tocqueville (Feb)
MODERN (1850 – present)
1860 Civilization of Renaissance Burckhardt (Feb)
1904 Protestant Work Ethic & Spirit of Capitalism Weber (Mar)
1937 The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell (Mar)
1938 The New England Mind Miller (April/May)
1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese (June)
1978 Distant Mirror Tuchman (July)
1987 All the President's Men Woodward & Bernstein (July)
1990 A Midwife's Tale Ballard (Aug)
1992 The End of History & the Last Man Fukuyama (Sept)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas Tree 2010



This is our twelfth year going to Donovan's Christmas Tree Farm (http://www.donovanplace.com/christmas_t­ree_farm.html). It is a wonderful family tradition for us.

Warning: I didn't turn the video off and put the lens cap back on, but it afforded us the opportunity to learn how long it took us to decide on a tree.

This is the longest we have ever taken to pick a tree: just shy of THREE minutes! We Weavers are easy to please, and it was great fun! Sorry for the blackout.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

The Well-Educated Mind Update 146/158 = 92%

I have 12 more to go!!!! I just finished: 


The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith. Let's not let history repeat itself! It was a fascinating read in every way. I recommend this too: 


The 1930's which is from the PBS Show American Experience.


AUTOBIOGRAPHY (all in the Modern Period)

1948 Seven Story Mountain Merton (Sept. 27, 2010)
1965 The Autobiography of + Malcolm X (November 15, 2010)
1973 Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn (Nov)

HISTORY
EARLY MODERN (1600 – 1850)
1776 Decline & Fall Roman Empire Gibbon (Dec)
1835 Democracy in America Tocqueville (Jan)
MODERN (1850 – present)
1860 Civilization of Renaissance Burckhardt (Feb)
1904 Protestant Work Ethic/Spirit of Capitalism Weber (Mar)
1937 The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell (Apr)
1938 The New England Mind Miller (April/May)
1955 The Great Crash Galbraith (December 8, 2010)
1974 Roll, Jordan, Roll Genovese (June)
1978 Distant Mirror Tuchman (Aug)
1987 All the President's Men Woodward & Bernstein (July)
1990 A Midwife's Tale Ballard (July)
1992 The End of History & the Last Man Fukuyama (Sept)

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