Thanks to everyone who signed up for PBS with us as referrers. I scored some great hardbacks in never read condition for the girls, and some other great books.
Here’s my tip for you all: the key to PBS is the wishlist. Add as many books as you can and get a place in line if anyone adds them. Then you are offered the book first (first come, first served.) We get offered several books a month that have been on our wishlist for months. Patience is key! And, if you are out of credits and a book you really want comes up, you can buy credits affordably.
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I’ve blogged this one before, but I’ve been singing it so much this week. I need to sing it to myself to believe it sometimes.
We travel through a barren land,
With dangers thick on every hand;
But Jesus guides us through the vale;
O, The Christian’s hope can never fail.
Huge sorrows meet us as we go,
And devils aim to overthrow;
But vile infernals can’t prevail;
O, The Christian’s hope shall never fail.
Sometimes we’re tempted to despair,
But Jesus makes us then His care;
Though numerous foes our souls assail;
O, The Christian’s hope can never fail.
We trust upon the sacred word,
The oath and promise of the Lord;
And safely through each tempest sail;
O, The Christian’s hope can never fail.
–from the Gadsby Hymnal
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Sometimes, my husband buys me flowers. Some weeks, I appreciate them more than ever. Thanks, M.
Posted in photo love
So, it’s October, and I thought by now that I’d have the whole working/mothering/keeping life in order down pat. It’s actually quite the challenge, especially since I work a lot more than the two days a week I am teaching (planning, grading, and answering email) and am still doing design work on the side. I haven’t felt good in a really long time, so that hasn’t helped. Blogging has surely fallen by the wayside. Photography hasn’t, because that is therapeutic. I had a fun shoot yesterday I’ll share sometime. I do want to blog about Wendell Berry and New Urbanism and also Starbucks and Community. I’ll surprise you someday with that actual content. Right. Did I mention I am also taking a distance course through the Chalmers Center for fun and edification this month?
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FUNERAL WORTHY HYMNS
All the Way, My Savior Leads Me
Be Still, My Soul
By Grace I Am An Heir of Heaven
For All the Saints (Ralph Vaughn Williams tune – sung at the end, triumphantly.)
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Hark the Voice of Love and Mercy/It is Finished
I Belong to Jesus (someone arrange this one – great for kids and adults)
My Jesus I Love Thee
On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand
The Sands of Time are Sinking
This Joyful Eastertide (if it is the season of Easter, especially)
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
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I am always coming up with more hymns that I want sung at my funeral. As if it’s going to be some gigantic sing-along. I guess I can’t imagine anyone eulogizing me, so I imagine lots of songs? Whatever. But as we were singing “Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand” tonight, I felt like it had to be included also. At least all of my hymns are thematically about death and bodily resurrection, I’m tidy that way.
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I was reflecting this week about how much I love my iPod. I love driving around alone in silence (silence is at a premium when you have two toddlers) and having a song pop into my head, a song that was my favorite in the fall of 1999 but haven’t listened to in a year, and being able to have that song coming through the speakers in fifteen seconds or less. That’s pretty amazing when you think about it.
Mike got his ginormous Mac Book Pro from school the other day. It’s hard not to have Mac-lust when you’re sharing your home with one of those. I covet. Wishing, hoping, dreaming…
Posted in technology
We’ve been members of PaperBackSwap for a little over a year and have received over 60 books. It’s a GREAT program. Now is the time to sign up. Currently they give you 3 starter credits (a.k.a. free books) for signing up and listing 9 books you are willing to send out (you send out your unwanted books to receive a credit worth another book, paying only outgoing postage.) Starting in October, it will move to 2 starter credits for signing up and listing 10 books. Now’s the time to join up. And if you sign up using one of the links in this post, we get a free credit as well. And we’re all about free books.
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