In it's ongoing efforts to increase clarity and remain relevant while, at the same time, stay true to the intent of the authors and original text, the translating body of the NIV released the online version of it's most recent revision and update.
You can search the text as well as compare it to the two previous versions here: http://www.biblegateway.com You can also find out the methods used and the approach applied by the translating committee.
More information about this release can be found here: http://www.biblica.com/news/106
"When the books of the Bible were first written, they captured exactly what God wanted to say in the languages and idioms used by the ordinary people of the time" said Professor [Douglas] Moo. "The NIV seeks to recover these priorities, allowing readers to perceive the structure of the original and the meaning of the original at the same time. The changes we have made in the update maintain and strengthen this focus, reflecting progress in biblical scholarship, developments in English usage, and an ongoing concern for clarity. We have also used new tools, drawing on state-of-the-art computational linguistic research to guide us in our decision-making and to ensure that the words we choose maximize comprehension of the original meaning."
The print version will be released in March 2011 and the Hurst Library plans to add it to the Reference Collection.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
"All About Music!" Month and Staff Recommendations
Well, the school year is off to a great start and October is a busy month at the library!
Front of Display
Back of Display
Side of Display
(I purposefully did not take a close up shot of the side of the display so that you'd have to come in and read the hilarious comic I found) =)
While you're here, you'll pass right by our staff recommendations!
"This book is perfect for ages 8 and up. I fell in love with Brian Jacques' 'Redwall' series at a young age, and through years of re-reading them, they never fail to engage and delight. I cannot recommend them highly enough!" (recommended by me, Emily Skolrud)
"[This book is] a compelling read and informative account of a modern woman's travels through the Middle East and former Soviet Union. Contains thought-provoking insights into various Asian cultures". - recommended by Christa Strickler
"This tale, often misconstrued as a story of romance and passion, recounts the dire consequences of foolishly ignoring the sound advice of family and friends in favor of unbridled lust. A true classic". - recommended by Michael Anderson
This month we are highlighting music with our "All About Music" display.
Front of Display
Back of Display
Side of Display
(I purposefully did not take a close up shot of the side of the display so that you'd have to come in and read the hilarious comic I found) =)
This display is for anyone who likes, is majoring in, is involved in or wants to know more about music. The library has countless books, magazines and periodicals with pertinent, relevant information, as well as articles written by some of the top people in the business. A few areas of music that are highlighted in the display are worship, audio recording, music education and performance. Be sure to stop by and check it out and make plans to stop in next month when we highlight a different area of study.
While you're here, you'll pass right by our staff recommendations!
The staff recommendations give you the chance to see what the library staff is reading and loving. Here are just a few of the titles that are being recommended:
"This book is perfect for ages 8 and up. I fell in love with Brian Jacques' 'Redwall' series at a young age, and through years of re-reading them, they never fail to engage and delight. I cannot recommend them highly enough!" (recommended by me, Emily Skolrud)
"[This book is] a compelling read and informative account of a modern woman's travels through the Middle East and former Soviet Union. Contains thought-provoking insights into various Asian cultures". - recommended by Christa Strickler
These are just a few of the titles that the Hurst Library staff recommend as great reads. Check them out before they're all snatched up!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The world's most unlikely hero: Greg Heffley, a truly Wimpy Kid.
In this series, brand new to Hurst Library, you have the opportunity to read Greg's diary and see the world from his perspective. After all, it is terribly difficult to be a kid!
This way you don't have to wait until the new ones come out to get your Wimpy Kid fix.
Note to parents: This is the book I would hand to readers who were just advancing from Reading Level 4 or 5 (mid-elementary school), but were too intimidated by a lot of text. Wimpy kid integrates a fair amount of text with funny cartoons. This is a great bridge into larger, thicker books - it has the heft of a larger chapter book with the word count of a Learn-to-Read. After this, they can move right onto Percy Jackson!
Enjoy the adventure!
In this series, brand new to Hurst Library, you have the opportunity to read Greg's diary and see the world from his perspective. After all, it is terribly difficult to be a kid!Not only do we have the first installment of this funny series...
But also the middle two...
And the last!
This way you don't have to wait until the new ones come out to get your Wimpy Kid fix.Note to parents: This is the book I would hand to readers who were just advancing from Reading Level 4 or 5 (mid-elementary school), but were too intimidated by a lot of text. Wimpy kid integrates a fair amount of text with funny cartoons. This is a great bridge into larger, thicker books - it has the heft of a larger chapter book with the word count of a Learn-to-Read. After this, they can move right onto Percy Jackson!
Enjoy the adventure!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
The New Encyclopedia of the Bible
This week's spotlight is on the latest edition of Zondervan's Encyclopedia of the Bible.
Generally speaking, I am not one to get excited about encyclopedias - I've got other things I'd rather be reading! However, one look at this resource and I am hooked.
There is great basic information on everything from Jerusalem to Catacombs, perfect for an experienced researcher just starting out on a new topic or a new student taking their first religious studies class.
Each entry explains the topic from both the Biblical and historical perspectives, as well as placing the topic completely within the greater world. Information, though not extensive, provides a basic understanding and a solid basis for further study.
Now that I have said my piece about the information in this book, let me step back into a more superficial position: BEAUTIFUL! Yes, this series is fully illustrated with full-color images.
Though the information is important, the way the information is presented is too. And this Encyclopedia covers both aspects wonderfully.
Generally speaking, I am not one to get excited about encyclopedias - I've got other things I'd rather be reading! However, one look at this resource and I am hooked.
There is great basic information on everything from Jerusalem to Catacombs, perfect for an experienced researcher just starting out on a new topic or a new student taking their first religious studies class. Each entry explains the topic from both the Biblical and historical perspectives, as well as placing the topic completely within the greater world. Information, though not extensive, provides a basic understanding and a solid basis for further study.
Now that I have said my piece about the information in this book, let me step back into a more superficial position: BEAUTIFUL! Yes, this series is fully illustrated with full-color images.
Though the information is important, the way the information is presented is too. And this Encyclopedia covers both aspects wonderfully.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Young Adult Books - Heroines
This week's new books were more varied than usual. With equal parts Nursing and Education, Fiction and Religion; however, the overwhelming majority was from our growing Young Adult section.
Even within the subheading of Young Adult, an even narrower topic emerged: African American, female protagonists.
When I was a wee librarian-ette, the only books with girls as storytellers were about falling in love, overcoming abuse, or involved dresses from the Renaissance. Even fewer of these books had multicultural, female protagonists... in fact, I am having difficulty thinking of a great young adult book with such a main character.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a noted exception. As is The House on Mango Street, The Devil's Arithmetic and Island of the Blue Dolphins.
That is why this week's Spotlight on New Books makes me so happy! Three new books with three exciting, female, African American, teenage heroines for you to read and enjoy.
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
After a tragedy that claims the life of both of her parents, Rachel is forced to face issues of race and class. This book is not about the tragedy of her early life or, really, the injustice of racial identity, but about how one girl reacted to these experiences.
Flygirl by Sherri Smith
All Ida ever wanted to do was fly, just like her daddy. When WWII begins she sees her chance with the WASPs; however, she has to hide her African American heritage to do realize this dream. If you are forced to suppress your family and who you are, can you ever completely realize your dreams?
Mare's War by Tanita Davis
This story follows two present-day sisters on a road trip with their eccentric grandmother. Just as the road before them, their grandmother's story unfurls allowing them to learn about her past and theirs.
Even within the subheading of Young Adult, an even narrower topic emerged: African American, female protagonists.
When I was a wee librarian-ette, the only books with girls as storytellers were about falling in love, overcoming abuse, or involved dresses from the Renaissance. Even fewer of these books had multicultural, female protagonists... in fact, I am having difficulty thinking of a great young adult book with such a main character.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a noted exception. As is The House on Mango Street, The Devil's Arithmetic and Island of the Blue Dolphins.
That is why this week's Spotlight on New Books makes me so happy! Three new books with three exciting, female, African American, teenage heroines for you to read and enjoy.
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
After a tragedy that claims the life of both of her parents, Rachel is forced to face issues of race and class. This book is not about the tragedy of her early life or, really, the injustice of racial identity, but about how one girl reacted to these experiences.
Flygirl by Sherri Smith
All Ida ever wanted to do was fly, just like her daddy. When WWII begins she sees her chance with the WASPs; however, she has to hide her African American heritage to do realize this dream. If you are forced to suppress your family and who you are, can you ever completely realize your dreams?
Mare's War by Tanita Davis
This story follows two present-day sisters on a road trip with their eccentric grandmother. Just as the road before them, their grandmother's story unfurls allowing them to learn about her past and theirs.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Pulitzer Prize Winners
The Pulitzer Prize is a yearly award honoring excellence in journalism and the arts - a prize that has been in existence since 1917.
Past honorees in the Fiction category include such greats as The Magnificent Ambersons, The Age of Innocence (my favorite book!!), The Good Earth, Gone with the Wind, and Our Town.
Of particular note in this category is 2007's winner, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Haunting is the best word to describe this book and I am still lost for words on how McCarthy was able to craft such elegant prose from a story that was so minimal and wordless.
On the non-fiction side of the arts:Liaquat Ahamed, using his skills as an economist and historian, traces the origins of the greatest economic disaster back to the hands of just a few bankers. Yet these few toppled the economies of the Western World and, Ahamed asserts, brought about WWII.
These are just a few examples we have in the library of Pulitzer Prize winners.
For more information about the prize itself, click HERE.
Past honorees in the Fiction category include such greats as The Magnificent Ambersons, The Age of Innocence (my favorite book!!), The Good Earth, Gone with the Wind, and Our Town.
Of particular note in this category is 2007's winner, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Haunting is the best word to describe this book and I am still lost for words on how McCarthy was able to craft such elegant prose from a story that was so minimal and wordless.
On the non-fiction side of the arts:Liaquat Ahamed, using his skills as an economist and historian, traces the origins of the greatest economic disaster back to the hands of just a few bankers. Yet these few toppled the economies of the Western World and, Ahamed asserts, brought about WWII.
2008...
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America
Daniel Walker Howe's revolutionary understanding of the creation of modern-day America. How did we turn from a pioneer's outpost to one of the most industrial countries? That question provides the backbone to Howe's history.
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America
Daniel Walker Howe's revolutionary understanding of the creation of modern-day America. How did we turn from a pioneer's outpost to one of the most industrial countries? That question provides the backbone to Howe's history.2007...
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Though overshadowed by his more famous siblings (Harriet Beecher Stowe, for one), Henry Ward Beecher founded modern Christianity. By replacing God-fearing sermons with a focus on love and mercy, Beecher's influence continues to be felt in sermons every Sunday. Outside of the pulpit, his life held some demons which Debby Applegate chronicles in this fast-paced tale.
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
Though overshadowed by his more famous siblings (Harriet Beecher Stowe, for one), Henry Ward Beecher founded modern Christianity. By replacing God-fearing sermons with a focus on love and mercy, Beecher's influence continues to be felt in sermons every Sunday. Outside of the pulpit, his life held some demons which Debby Applegate chronicles in this fast-paced tale.These are just a few examples we have in the library of Pulitzer Prize winners.
For more information about the prize itself, click HERE.
Or come in and check out our special display
located by the Circulation Desk.
located by the Circulation Desk.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
READ Poster Winner!
I would like to congratulate our 2010 National Library Week READ Poster Contest winner...
Congrats Jonus!!!
Come check out his poster next week as it takes its place of honor!
Thanks to all of our wonderful entries and to all of you who participated in voting! We look forward to seeing your submissions next year!
Thanks to all of our wonderful entries and to all of you who participated in voting! We look forward to seeing your submissions next year!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Local History - Seattle Style
Perhaps I enjoy history more than the next person; however, my tastes mostly lead me to the exotic, foreign and distant history of lands and peoples far away. The more foreign the place, the more I am interested in it.Local history, on the other hand, is the stuff of boredom, forever associated with dull battles over water rights.
But this is Seattle! SEATTLE! Where the Wild West continued on through the 1930s, where the Gold Rush put us on the map, and our fair city has seen more than its fair share of ill repute! Lately, I can't get enough!
Thankfully, Hurst Library has some recent acquisitions to satisfy my new-found interest in all things local.
Here are my new favorites...
The House of Hope and Fear - Though more recent history, this is the real life story of a city hospital, Harborview to be exact, and the day-to-day struggles to keep up with the continuous flow of patients. This is the real-life Grey's Anatomy, in a real-life Seattle hospital. A great read for nursing students!
Family of Strangers is a collection of newspaper clippings, birth records, and, most interestingly, photos of Washington's Jewish pioneers. Following the first settlers all of the way through WWII, this book is a time capsule lovingly written. Did I mention the pictures?!?!
I credit PBS, more specifically their special on the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, for igniting my local history fever!In this book, you are taken on a pictorial journey through the greatest unknown fair Seattle ever had. "World's Fair, Shmorld's Fair" is what you will say by the end of this book!
The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition took place over a hundred years ago, saw hundreds of thousands of visitors, and left us a great legacy - all of the original UW buildings were created to house this fair.
My words fail to describe the beauty of this book!
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Hopefully it does not sound as though I have over hyped this local history stuff, but I just cannot get enough!
Scandal! Money! Double-Crossing! It is all here in our little town!
Scandal! Money! Double-Crossing! It is all here in our little town!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
New Music Focuses at NU
There are exciting things happening in NU's Music department! Over the past year they have been building a state of the art music studio in the 6710 Building and working on crafting three (yes, 3!) new major areas of interest.
Here in the library, though we do not have the fancy new equipment, we have been working on developing our collection to best serve the new students!
The New Worship - Though not specifically about worship technology, Liesch does discuss the changing role of music itself in worship. Anyone pursuing a career in Worship Technology needs to know how/if this relationship works!
Music Technology in Worship - This is the handbook for this particular focus, describing the role of technology within the church and within the music. Learn how to make the best out of what you have and reach as many people as possible.
Here in the library, though we do not have the fancy new equipment, we have been working on developing our collection to best serve the new students!
Recording Arts
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration - This is the original and premiere book for composers! It has everything: history, orchestration, MIDI and sampling environment, studio setup, future of orchestration, etc.
The Desktop Studio: A Guide to Computer-Based Audio Production - Using your computer for audio production is where the industry is heading and this book gives you the basics to lay the groundwork for an excellent computer based audio production experience.
Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students - This handbook walks its readers through every possible step in the production process. If you are new to the field, this will prove to be invaluable!
Sound FX - Want to learn how to use your studio to produce better music? This is what you need. If you have the basics down and want to expand your understanding of distortion, reverb, equalization, and pitch shift, then take a look at this book for helpful advice and inspiration.
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration - This is the original and premiere book for composers! It has everything: history, orchestration, MIDI and sampling environment, studio setup, future of orchestration, etc.
The Desktop Studio: A Guide to Computer-Based Audio Production - Using your computer for audio production is where the industry is heading and this book gives you the basics to lay the groundwork for an excellent computer based audio production experience.
Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students - This handbook walks its readers through every possible step in the production process. If you are new to the field, this will prove to be invaluable!
Sound FX - Want to learn how to use your studio to produce better music? This is what you need. If you have the basics down and want to expand your understanding of distortion, reverb, equalization, and pitch shift, then take a look at this book for helpful advice and inspiration.
Worship Technology
The New Worship - Though not specifically about worship technology, Liesch does discuss the changing role of music itself in worship. Anyone pursuing a career in Worship Technology needs to know how/if this relationship works!
Music Technology in Worship - This is the handbook for this particular focus, describing the role of technology within the church and within the music. Learn how to make the best out of what you have and reach as many people as possible.
Music Business
Music Business Handbook & Career Guide - A great, general guide to all of the major ins and outs of the music industry. From songwriting to production, this newly revised handbook is up-to-date and a first stop for people interested in any music related career.
Get a Job in the Music Industry - Still wondering if the music business is where you are being called? This volume highlights many different career possibilities in the industry, explains how to build a resume, and, best of all, provides a directory of other important publications to continue your quest.
Artist Management for the Music Business - From the Focal Press, the most trusted name in music publication, this volume addresses the managers. It starts from the beginning, instructing potential managers on the best ways to enter into the profession (college advice, internships, networking, etc), and continues by offering more advanced career advice.
Get a Job in the Music Industry - Still wondering if the music business is where you are being called? This volume highlights many different career possibilities in the industry, explains how to build a resume, and, best of all, provides a directory of other important publications to continue your quest.
Artist Management for the Music Business - From the Focal Press, the most trusted name in music publication, this volume addresses the managers. It starts from the beginning, instructing potential managers on the best ways to enter into the profession (college advice, internships, networking, etc), and continues by offering more advanced career advice.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New Mars Hill Audio Journal
That is right!
It is time for Issue 101
of Mars Hill's Audio Journal!
This Issue includes new lectures...
Please stop by and take a look!
It is time for Issue 101of Mars Hill's Audio Journal!
This Issue includes new lectures...
Thomas Long discusses funeral rites and their place in today's society.
William Cavanaugh discusses how the concept of "Religious Wars" misinterpret religion.
James Hunter discusses how Christians need to start looking at culture differently when trying to engage with the world around them.
William Cavanaugh discusses how the concept of "Religious Wars" misinterpret religion.
James Hunter discusses how Christians need to start looking at culture differently when trying to engage with the world around them.
Please stop by and take a look!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
New in Education
"To teach is to learn twice."
~ Joseph Joubert, Pensees
~ Joseph Joubert, Pensees
Teaching, as many more eloquent people have said before me, is a calling. Northwest University makes a serious effort to keep their education program up-to-date and comprehensive so that, upon graduating, students enter the teaching force with all of the skills they need to reach their students effectively.
In that spirit, Hurst Library continuously updates their holdings...
These books, for example, are new in this week!
General Teaching Books:
Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness is a general companion guide for teachers of all grades and all subjects. The author works with the concept of mindfulness - how to be conscious of your teaching at all times - and integrates that with education, teaching the students the best way of taking their knowledge and using it in all aspects of his/her life. Basically, this is a guide to develop mental and emotional presence in your work.
Multicultural Teaching is a handbook with real world activities and examples for teachers trying to reach a multicultural classroom. This book covers more than just racial diversity, but also addresses monetary and gender diversity. It is a good source for information, but a better source for practical how-to - walking you through lesson planning and self-evaluation.
Rethinking Classroom Participation: Listening to the Silent Voices. Anyone who has taught before knows the terror of a noisy classroom almost as well as the terror of the silent one. In this book Katherine Schultz teaches you to gauge this silence, listen to the quiet students, and insure that your instruction is getting to all of the students in the classroom.
Subject Specific Teaching Books:
The Mathematics Teacher's Handbook does exactly as its title suggests - provides a companion for Mathematics teachers. It comprehensively covers everything from developing a Math-loving classroom culture to making the most of math homework assignments.
Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies attempts to make early Social Studies more personal and, hence, more accessible to the students. This book addresses most of the major methods for instruction and gives real classroom examples. This is the second and newest edition of this already much used guide.
Reforming Secondary Science Instruction operates with the (valid) assumption that secondary science education is broken and that, if we want our children to graduate with the necessary scientific knowledge, teachers need to work to reform it from the inside out. Each chapter addresses a different issue, walks you through a self-assessment, and guides you to beneficial reform.
Ha! That reminds me of this one time, in 10th grade biology, when my lab partner and I succeeded in setting the entire lab table on fire... but I digress.
Come check out all of these books I mentioned
and many more on special display on our New Book Shelf!
and many more on special display on our New Book Shelf!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Magazines for Fun, not Learning
If you ar
e anything like me, you casually flip through magazines while waiting at the checkout or while killing some time in a bookstore. Usually this affords me enough time to get caught up on the latest gossip about Angie and Brad and on the latest thoughts of experts on trans fats; however, sometimes I want a little more time!
This is when I march over to my favorite corner of Hurst Library, sit in the comfortable chairs and browse one of the many popular magazines available.
e anything like me, you casually flip through magazines while waiting at the checkout or while killing some time in a bookstore. Usually this affords me enough time to get caught up on the latest gossip about Angie and Brad and on the latest thoughts of experts on trans fats; however, sometimes I want a little more time!This is when I march over to my favorite corner of Hurst Library, sit in the comfortable chairs and browse one of the many popular magazines available.
What?!?!
We have these and many more to occupy your leisure time or to help you in the art of procrastination.
Come take a look!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Spring Break - Time for FUN!
A whole week where you have nothing to do but sit in your PJs, eat ice cream, and watch movies... can life get any better?
You have learned to use our expertise while writing your papers and studying for your tests. To many students, however, we become obsolete during this annual break from classes. But...
Hurst Library can even help during Spring Break!
Not everything on our shelves is educational. We like having fun too! And, best of all, renting movies from us is FREE.
To search our collections visit our homepage, select the browse by format tab followed by the link called "Videos and DVDs."
... or just click HERE
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Eyes on Canada
Now that we are well into the Olympics, I've been thinking a lot about our friends to the north.
Personally, I started obsessing about snowboard-cross (Have you seen this? Spectacular!) and I have fully indulged my younger self's love of pretty things by watching as much ice dancing as possible. Watching the opening ceremonies with the Native American dances and the Mounties, I started to realize that we share so much cultural and political history with our neighbors, yet I know so little about them.
One of my favorite ways to learn more about a culture is by reading their literature - not boring books about their history, but fiction and poetry that offers unique perspectives on their lives and minds.
Here are a few of my personal favorite Canadians and some of their best works:
This haunting, dystopic tale, told from the perspective of a women who remembers better times, was the best book I read last year. Atwood's take on a future society sometimes resembles today's world in more ways than the reader cares to admit.
and, last but not least,
Personally, I started obsessing about snowboard-cross (Have you seen this? Spectacular!) and I have fully indulged my younger self's love of pretty things by watching as much ice dancing as possible. Watching the opening ceremonies with the Native American dances and the Mounties, I started to realize that we share so much cultural and political history with our neighbors, yet I know so little about them.
One of my favorite ways to learn more about a culture is by reading their literature - not boring books about their history, but fiction and poetry that offers unique perspectives on their lives and minds.
Here are a few of my personal favorite Canadians and some of their best works:
This haunting, dystopic tale, told from the perspective of a women who remembers better times, was the best book I read last year. Atwood's take on a future society sometimes resembles today's world in more ways than the reader cares to admit.John McCrae and In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow..." starts the most beautiful and painful poems. Written by McCrae while in the trenches of WWI, this poem reminds me that it was not just American soldiers crossing the Atlantic to fight on the fields of Flanders, Canadians were fighting with us too. You will never look at the red poppies in the same way again.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow..." starts the most beautiful and painful poems. Written by McCrae while in the trenches of WWI, this poem reminds me that it was not just American soldiers crossing the Atlantic to fight on the fields of Flanders, Canadians were fighting with us too. You will never look at the red poppies in the same way again.
Lucy Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables
This is where the story begins. I cannot count the number of times I read these stories as a kid, and, even today, I nurse and enduring love for Anne and her strength throughout life's problems. It is never too late to start reading about dear Anne!
This is where the story begins. I cannot count the number of times I read these stories as a kid, and, even today, I nurse and enduring love for Anne and her strength throughout life's problems. It is never too late to start reading about dear Anne!Alice Munro and Open Secrets
Each of these short stories is devoted to a different woman who must overcome or succumb to different situations, each written with love and understanding. At times, I wanted to reread the poetic beauty of each line and, at other times, I threw the book across the room in anger.
Each of these short stories is devoted to a different woman who must overcome or succumb to different situations, each written with love and understanding. At times, I wanted to reread the poetic beauty of each line and, at other times, I threw the book across the room in anger.and, last but not least,
Robert Service and The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Other Poems
Anyone who knows me will laugh when they see this! Not more than a day passes when I don't quote from my favorite Service poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee." Service gives voice to the thousands of men who left everything to prospect in Alaska during the gold rush - their pain, their suffering, and the siren's call they couldn't deny.
Anyone who knows me will laugh when they see this! Not more than a day passes when I don't quote from my favorite Service poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee." Service gives voice to the thousands of men who left everything to prospect in Alaska during the gold rush - their pain, their suffering, and the siren's call they couldn't deny.Saturday, February 20, 2010
Going Green
Talk about perfect weather! I mean, honestly, there is nothing I would change about what is going on outside right now. The flowers are blooming, the grass is growing, and I doubt I'll have to pull my wool coat out at all this year! Over the past week, I've shaken off the dust of another summer and filled my lungs with fresh air.
As I have been basking, my mind has been contemplating how important it is for us to continue to preserve what we have here. Thankfully we live in a community that values recycling and other Earth-friendly pursuits; however, this is a principle that we in the library take to heart and apply to all other aspects of our lives.
Hurst Library houses a wonderful collection of books dedicated to the subject of Green Living.
For appreciating its beauty...
Hope's Horizon
For the business-minded...
Green Recovery
For understanding the politics of the Green Movement...
The Making of Green Knowledge
For learning how to live a life with less impact on the environment... well, come to the library and ask one of our gifted Librarians how to find the resources to fit your needs.
As I have been basking, my mind has been contemplating how important it is for us to continue to preserve what we have here. Thankfully we live in a community that values recycling and other Earth-friendly pursuits; however, this is a principle that we in the library take to heart and apply to all other aspects of our lives.
Hurst Library houses a wonderful collection of books dedicated to the subject of Green Living.
For appreciating its beauty...
Hope's Horizon
For the business-minded...
Green Recovery
For understanding the politics of the Green Movement...
The Making of Green Knowledge
For learning how to live a life with less impact on the environment... well, come to the library and ask one of our gifted Librarians how to find the resources to fit your needs.
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