Updates and Downdates

Updates and Downdates

I noticed that most of my frustrating moments this weekend were as a result of the mood I was in, and my reaction to things that happened. I won’t bother with details as none of the incidents were of consequence; they were simply the minutiae that daily sit in the header of this page. At the time they seemed real enough to put me in a funk for most of the beginning of Saturday, as well as the beginning of Sunday. In both instances though I was able to be in a much better state by the evening.

Which brings us to the updates, the real reason for this post. On Thursday evening I finished Sense and Sensibility, significant for two reasons. The first reason this is significant is my decision to go back and read many of the classic books, especially those from that vast pool of books that most read in high school and college English classes. I have recently (in the last year) read Walden, The Old Man and the Sea, 100 Years of Solitude, The Brothers Karamazov, and Sense and Sensibility, all in addition to my regular schedule of Lewis and other Non-Fiction books.

The second reason this is significant is because of two women, Jane Austen and Amon Krist. The first woman you will no doubt recognize as the author of the wonderful book I had the pleasure of enjoying, and the second as the woman I’m dating. In way of further explanation, Amon wrote her thesis on Jane Austen and feels very strongly about these books.

I’m now reading a book called Coming Home to Eat. This book has some very interesting things to say about local foods, not only in the sense of recipes that are traditional to a certain people or area, but also in the sense of using ingredients that are from your local area, not flown, trained, or trucked in from across the country or the world. I”ll have a more thorough review of this book up soon I imagine. It could make for some interesting posts, it’s certainly given ME a lot to think about.

Until later,
Mike