Warning! May be Boring!

I just love a good book before bed. I can't help it. It's so relaxing to let my mind explore a beautiful story for the minutes or hours before I drift off to sleep. And reading a really good novel is a lot like looking at an expressive and detailed piece of art. Ever since I was a little girl, I've treasured the times I'd get lost in a book. The afternoons I spent sitting in the outstretched branches of our crab-apple tree, reading an adventure about Redwall or Narnia may have been some of the healthiest roots for my imagination. Even now, I'm amazed that our minds can paint such detailed pictures about what characters look like.

Well, I read the cutest book recently. I got it from a library book sale. (If you like books at all, and you've never done a library book sale, it's something you have to do!) The last one I went to was in Fort Benton. We got to fill big, brown paper bags with books for a dollar a bag. Or maybe it was fifty cents. Of course some of the books I picked were falling apart, but I found some real treasures. Like this one I just finished - Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev. It was translated from Russian and printed in 1917. And it was so true to life. It's about a man who's son returns home from years away at college and the challenge that faces him when he realizes that his precious son has grown up. And in the process, grown farther away from him. Through a series of events the boy comes to the same realization as his father. That there is a gulf now between them. I won't tell you how the story plays out, but you can imagine it for yourself after you read the last lines of the book. Warning! This may be boring. Especially if you didn't read the book. But I love it!

"...Can it be that love, sacred, devoted love, is not all-powerful? Oh, no!
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb,
the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes;
they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of 'indifferent' nature;
they tell us too of eternal reconciliation and of life without end."


THE END

The Pie Song

"Pie, pie, me oh my,
Nothing tastes sweet, wet, salty, and dry,
all at once so well as pie
Apple,
Pumpkin,
Mince and black bottom
I'll come to your place everyday
if you've got 'em
Pie, me oh my, I love pie."

Pushing Daisies and Pie

I found a little t.v. program that I really enjoy. Actually, Debra found it, but I've adopted it for my own. I've watched every episode they've made so far, since John started getting them for me from the internet. And It's a breath of fresh air that combines the Technicolor of The Wizard of Oz with the cuteness of a sweet romantic comedy, and then adds the mystery and dead people from C.S.I.! It's poetic, artsy, and just plain fun. It may even be too foofy for those who live for the prime-time dramas. But perhaps they could have Law and Order for dinner and Pushing Daisies for dessert. The sad news is, they haven't scheduled another episode to be aired since the writer's strike, and I don't know if it got enough of a following to keep it going. Which is sad because one of my favorite things about the show is that it features pie. I don't know that I'm the hugest fan of pie or if I just completely adore the idea of pie. After watching Andie Mcdowell sing her pie song in the movie Micheal, I've always want to make pie my favorite dessert. Ice cream will always win though.

So if you want to check it out, I'd download the first episode from the internet, or you can watch it from ABC's website. But no promises that they'll write anymore episodes. It seemed like Debra, Josue, John, and I were the only ones who have ever heard of the show, and we may not have been enough to keep the ratings very high. And since we've only watched it on the internet anyway, Pushing Daisies may end up. . .

. . . dead.

A Visit Home!

I guess one of the sweeter parts about moving away from home, is that one gets to visit home. And by home, I am referring to GREAT FALLS! It was definitely a much needed visit for me to see everyone that my heart's been craving for. And oh! The yummy plethora of friends we were able to see! It was the coolest thing that church had a combined service for the kick-off of 40 Days of Prayer, because everyone was in one room for me to see at the same time! And it was really fun to see God moving in Great Fall Christian Center! We stayed at my Mom's, which was very fun for me. And we got to visit almost everyone on our docket for the weekend! It was certainly a difficult thing for me to drive away from the city where my heart still remains, but having my most prized possession in the car beside me made it a lot easier. (That's John, by the way.)

It was funny that I took my camera, but took only three pictures the whole weekend. But here's adorable Emily and drop-dead handsome John. I just love her hilarious smile. We'll see all of you awesome friends again soon!