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Over the years I've given books to my dad for Christmas or his birthday, most of them books I have read. I don't mean the actual same book that I had paged through and marked up, but a second one purchased from Barnes and Noble or Amazon. I can't read without a pencil and so my books are all marked up and not suitable as gifts. Dad told me recently that he's now reading some of my books for the first time, or re-reading them because he doesn't remember the content. No matter our age or capacities, we are bound to find detailed content of a book fade from memory over time. That's just how it goes with life. Few paragraphs last forever. I've been wanting for some time to start re-reading the stash in my personal home library. I might be able to give you a short synopsis on each of them, but certainly not a full blown report. In the meantime, however, I can lift any of those books off my shelves and find sentences and paragraphs that I've underlined. The underlined parts jog my memory about the book in general. It's not unlike looking back at an old photograph album and reading the captions to be reminded just where that castle was located. The Everlasting Man ©1925 by G.K. Chesterton: "This creature [man, homo sapiens] was truly different from all other creatures because he was a creator as well as a creature. A new thing had appeared, a mind that is like a mirror. It is like a mirror because it is truly a thing of reflection." Crossing the Threshold of Hope ©1994 by His Holiness John Paul II. "It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment: Do not kill." Also in Threshold: "A person who believes in the essential goodness of all creation is capable of discovering all the secrets of creation, in order to perfect continually the work assigned to him by God." God and the World ©2002 by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. "Every single offense against truth is degrading for man and a slap in the face of love. True love desires the true good of the other person and therefore has the courage to oppose him whenever he does not see what is good." The Abolition of Man ©1943 by C.S. Lewis. "I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently." Abraham Lincoln's Great Speeches ©1991 by Dover Publications. "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on God, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." (First Inaugural Address, March 4th, 1861) The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1628-1688) ©Edition 1941. "If you will go with us, you must go against Wind and Tide, the which, I perceive, is against your Opinion: You must also own Religion in his Rags as well as when in his Silver Slippers, and stand by him, too, when bound in Irons, as well as when he walketh the Streets with Applause." Tuesdays with Morrie ©1997 by Mitch Albom. "As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. You live on -- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here." Pope Francis in His Own Words ©2010 by Ambrogetti and Rubin. "We eat with what we earn. We support our families with what we earn. It doesn't matter if it's a little or a lot. If it's more, all the better. We can own a fortune, but if we don't work, our dignity plummets. It is important that governments of all ministries and departments cultivate a culture of work, not of charity. Work confers dignity." Man's Search for Meaning ©1946 by Viktor Frankl. I had this book since college days and it was all marked up from at least two readings. But I carefully loaned it to a good friend -- actually, that friend was Father Elstan -- and he must have loaned it out to someone else. In any case, I didn't have the heart to ask for it back. The name "Sue Claeys" was written on the first inside page. And now I am finally expecting two brand new copies to arrive in the mail any day from Amazon. The second one is for my dad. Maybe one day, in this very space, I'll give you a full blown book report on it. *** If we get to have a public library in Victoria -- and I hope we do -- I would probably read the newspapers first. Would they include the New York Times, the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal? I'd check out the documentaries, touch and feel and read some of the old reference books if there are still such things in libraries, and I would introduce my grandchildren to the kids section. If I pick out some books to read once in a while, I promise I won't mark them up and make a mess for you. |
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Dedicated to the sunshine of truth, the moonshine of meeting deadlines, and the starshine of Victoria. |
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October 2013 |
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The Victoria GAZETTE |
