Published 15 years before his own cold death, Master and Man is a quintessential Tolstoyian story. He sets the scene of a good, flawed, man with a self-absorbed, money-grubbing master…
This book sat on my shelves for a longtime before it made its way into my hands. To describe this book in one word it would be, "Charming." It has…
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
A book that is a poem with a preface and notes on the poem. Thoroughly spastic, completely enjoyable.Quotes I enjoyed:"Let me close this important note with a rather anti-Darwinian aphorism: The…
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Day four of surgery is done and thus the week is coming to a happy close. We started this morning off by meditating on the proverbs again and their statements…
Surgery – Day 4
People naturally seek comfort; we seek predictability; we seek rhythm. We seek rhythm in music and last night some us tried to find that rhythm when we took salsa classes…
Surgery – Day 3
There’s something about singing How Great is Our God in the presence of volcanoes that stirs the soul to rejoice in the power of the creator of all things. There’s something about…
Surgery – Day 2
Proverbs 19:17 says, “Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.” This is the truth that Reverend Silverio unpacked for…
Surgery – Day 1
The team reverend, Silverio G. Sanchez, opened the scriptures this morning to Psalm 41:1, which says, “Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the…