THANK GOD FOR BOOKS AND GRANDKIDS

Books, where would we be w/o them?

This morning, early, maybe ca. 7:45, Dear Wife was up and doing whatever. I was in the kitchen making two coffees, on pot decaf, one pot caff.

And then the cutting and the prep of fruit and toast and whatever to support us until breakfast after church.

8:00am and all of a sudden and I asked where were the kids.

We had the Dear Grandgirls last weekend.

Dear Wife said they were still in bed.

I started the coffee machines and went to look. Thank God for coffee machines!

They were in bed alright – and they were reading the books we had bought together the day before.
The curtain over their window was slightly open and the early, early sunlight was just enough to enable them to see the pages.

They were reading!!!!!!!!
They were not watching TV.

We had done the bookstore thing the previous evening, this time with Dear Daughter. Dinner was an added delight before the book hunting.

Books-in-progress:
The High Window, Raymond Chandler. I am discovering the origins of a type of literature. Fun!

Firstlight, Sue Monk Kidd. Good stuff by a novelist and a contributor to GuidepostsBooks. Reading it for a church study group.

The Gospel of Luke, Fr. Frederick Schmidt. Another book for still another church study group.

Book-just-finished:
Citizens of London, Lynne Olsen. An account of several Americans making a difference in wartime London, WW2.

I would promise to report on impressions, etc., but I did that some months ago and never followed through.

So I won’t promise now.
But would love to exchange thoughts.

Thank God for books!