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The Other Side of Sixty
Random thoughts from an older perspective, writing, politics, spirituality, climate change, movies,knitting, writing, books, refinishing furniture, getting off the grid, writing, plotting and planning an organic garden, writing. I MUST STAY DRUNK ON WRITING SO REALITY DOES NOT DESTROY ME.
About Me
- Name: Wisewebwoman
- Location: Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
Irish by birth, Newfoundlandler by avocation - I live here 80% of the time. The other 20% is spent where the wind blows me. I think random thoughts on an even more random universe. Elevated, exhilarated and exalted by the fact I am living in this day and age. I've come all the way from hand-cranked calculators in an endless room of clerical drones to a flat monitored multi-gigabyted home office where the work comes to me. How absolutely cool is that???
AH, G'WAN ~ EMAIL ME
Previous Posts
- Thank you, thank you, thank you, President Carter!...
- I’m not Scared of Dyin’……
- Great Distractions
- The Beethoven Connection
- Je Regrette Paris.
- A whiter shade of pale: or Jackson, Fawcett and Mc...
- Economics 101
- The Importance of Being Ansa
- I Blink Therefore I Am.
- Life
ONLINE BLOGGER SINCE JULY 2005
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KNITORIS - My Knitting Blog
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Books Read in 2012
Skin Room - Sara TilleyMajor Pettigrew's Last Stand (BC) - Helen Simonson***
The Other Hand - Chris Cleave*****
A World Elsewhere - Wayne Johnston**Not up to his usual standards
The Virgin Cure - Ami McKay*****
All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve*****
February - Lisa Moore(skimmed as re-read for BC-1/2)*****
Exit Lines - Joan Barfoot***
A Cold Day for Murder - Dana Stabenow**
Bay of Spirits - Farley Mowat*****Newfoundland, beautifully told
Springfield Place - S.A. McCormick (won't rate, she's a friend)
Afterimage - Helen Humphreys*****beautiful
The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve****
Light on Snow - Anita Shreve*****one of her best
At Home In France - Ann Barry*****oh I hated leaving this one
Sea Glass - Anita Shreve***
Pagan Babies - Elmore Leonard*
The Way We Were - Marcia Willett***
Galore - Michael Crummey
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton*****Oh to write like this!
Memories of Peter's River - Bride Martin (a friend: not rating)
Swimmer in the Secret Sea - William Kotzwinkle*****short, powerful
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley(BC)****
The Best of Bernard MacLaverty - Bernard MacLaverty***
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain(BC)****
Heft - Liz Moore***** one of the best.ever.
The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard*****
Grandmother's Footsteps - Carol Smith****excellent thriller, meaningless title
The Fault in our Stars - John Green*****One of the best
Sense of Wonder - Ann Patchett(BC)**
Thin Ice - Marsha Qualey***
Dressing Up for the Carnival - Carol Shields (again)***
Lies of Silence - Brian Moore*****Heart stopping, breathtaking
Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate Dicamillo*****beautiful
The Sleeping Beauty - Elizabeth Taylor *** A reissue, I love this writer
Mistaken - Neil Jordan**** (thanks Helen!)
The Collected Stories - John McGahern
TOTAL TO DATE: 36
{BC=Book Club}
Ratings: *(poor)**(fair)***(good)****(very good)*****(excellent)
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14 Comments:
A lot!
And.... their second homes!
It's even ridiculous for them to be decked out like that. Jesus wore a simple robe. Let them wear hair shirts with fleas in them.
Eeeeew, they so need a makeover, what would Gok (popular British fashionista and all round sweetheart) say?
It's a road accident of colour, Santa Claus meets one of the three wise men and pinches all the roses from Snow White. Have they not heard that less is more?
@Gail:
And we're not counting all the servants and slaves, bank accounts, real estate, and and....
@GM:
And the ones we don't know about....
@Irene:
Exactly. Why don't they model themselves on their Master?
@Hull:
Clutter brought into a brand new dimension, I agree.
XO
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LOL WWW.
If they sold what they were wearing in this picture and gave that money to the poor, I guess they can feed about 50 starving families off the bat!
It all went wrong somewhere along the line didn't it, WWW ?
I tried to find out how much the RC church is really worth, overall. Hard question, apparently.
There are some interesting views from both sides at Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081119062114AAkwhdI
However much it is - it's TOO MUCH!
And of course if they sold off the Vatican and moved into a unit at the local business park. Just think how much cash that would raise.
It's like our stimulas package, take from the worker and give to the do nothings. As long as we are mandated to fund this fiasco the problems will not be resolved. Am I seeing Red? Yes, in more ways than one.
When I visited the Vatican I sent my In-laws, who are catholics, a postcard from the Vatican post office with the special stamp. All I wrote was "Don't bother to donate anymore money to the church, they have plenty". I don't think they ever received that postcard.
T:
Oh you'll never find out. Vast is a word that covers it, I think!
XO
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Nick:
Never has the power of example been more neglected than in the Vatican and all its sycophants.
XO
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Brighid:
I never expected anything more of either of them. It is all talk to please the masses and do what they darn well please with the precious pennies of the peasantry.
XO
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Deb:
I bet it was censored, what do you think?
XO
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