The Library

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
(Albert Einstein in The Little Free Library Book by Margaret Aldrich, p. 28)
29 September 2015

Poverty

Poverty affects people in a multitude of ways beginning in infancy and childhood. How can poverty begin to be alleviated in your community? Literacy programs are a start.

Show kindness and mercy ... do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil ... against one another. (Zechariah 7:9,10)

(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 44, 7 July)

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We stopped at the library yesterday to drop off movies and music.  We also visited the bookstore in the basement.  Someone donated music CDs that I found on the top shelf.  The price for each CD was twenty-five cents.  I bought twelve cases, containing sixteen CDs for $3.00.  All were in "like new" condition. I was familiar with the performers on all but three of the CDs ( * new to me)

Time-Life - Lifetime of Romance (8 CDs in 4 cases)

Northern Lights - Living it the City (*)

John Yates & The Yates Brothers with Wyatt Rice (*)

The Freight Hoppers - Waiting on the Gravy Train (*)

Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien - Be Ready Boys

Ricky Skaggs - Favorite Country Songs

Tom T. Hall - Home Grown

New Coon Creek Girls featuring Dale Ann Bradley - Our Point of View

David Davis - My Dixie Home

Dick Henthorn

12 April 2015

Agenda

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. (Hugh Mulligan in Touchstones, 14 August)

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Yesterday I went to the library bookstore to purchase more books for my BookCrossing releases.  The shelf with the ten cent books was full.  I brought my canvas bag and filled it with ten books.  I found four novels and a daily devotional that I may want to read myself.

Dick's Reading

1. Boyle, Walter J. - Dawn Over Kitty Hawk
2. Gingrich, Newt and William R. Forstchen - Never Call Retreat
3. Allende, Isabel - Zorro
4. Allende, Isabel - Portrait in Sepia
5. Buechner, Frederick - Listening to Your Life

BookCrossing Books

1. Irving, John - Cider House Rules
2. Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
3. Hillerman, Tony - Finding Moon
4. Frazier, Charles - Thirteen Moons
5. Smith, Wilbur - Assegai
6. Burt, Guy - A Clock Without Hands

Mr. Dickie

27 September 2012

Serious Times

Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. (Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, p. 266)

In any realm of life success depends on obedience to the word of the expert.  (William Barclay, The Letter to the Hebrews, p. 34)

No Man Need Stay The Way He Is, (Title of a Fosdick sermon in The Letters To Timothy by William Barclay, p. 251)

Each of us must make our way through these serious times, carefully ordering our priorities and doing what we need to do to safeguard our spiritual growth.  (Casey and Vanceburg, The Promise Of A New Day, 6 August)

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Yesterday I spent the afternoon in Bowie, MD.  I attended the computer club meeting at the Senior Center.  I assisted with setting up and breaking down the room.  Florence brought her desktop computer running Windows XP. We connected the computer to the projector.  She needed some help with with the use of her floppy and CD drives.  The computer was quite slow even when it was hard wired to the Internet.  After the meeting Bob B. made several changes in an attempt to eliminate the problems.  

After the club meeting I went to the libraries in Bowie and Crofton to return books and CDs.  I checked out ten more CDs from Crofton.  I selected several CDs by country artists who are new to me.

This is my second day using the new Blogger editor.  I like it so far.  The Label entry works better and the formatting commands are better.  The Preview displays how the page will actually look.  Overall I give them a "thumbs up."

Mr. Dickie

2 September 2011