Tag: library

• Library

  We have more books than I could read in a lifetime. I’m in the middle of three or four books right now. It occurred to me that I also have a new translation of the Quran to get through. So I look at our library with a sort of melancholy resignation that some of the…

  Mark

  June 4, 2025

  witness

  #books, brains, library, lifetime, melancholy resignation, Quran, translation

• Sedentary Life

  I am sitting in an easy chair drinking beer. I still have my clothes on but not my shoes. If anyone were to invade my home I probably wouldn’t stand much of a chance, but I keep repeating to myself that if God constrains me to kill someone He will provide a way. I’m not…

  Mark

  April 3, 2025

  collaboration, witness

  beer, easy chair, library, minority religion, political dissident, sedentary, threat

• Collection and Collectables

  Do you have any collections? I have a fair number of collectables. They range from political buttons to action figures of my favorite cartoons. But I don’t have big sets of those things. I have a foreign coin collection that I hardly ever take out. But my real collection is books. We have enough books…

  Mark

  May 22, 2024

  Uncategorized

  action figures, coins, collectables, collections, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1946, library, political buttons

• History

  When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why? When I was still trying to get my Associates Degree I spent a lot of time in the college library. One of the books I found fascinating was a list of the author’s choices of the most influential…

  Mark

  October 19, 2023

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  dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2093, hate, influential, inspire, library, political, spiritual, success