Walks, Views, Waterlogued

Just a few artsy views, all of them created with the Waterlogue App from my own photos.  From walks around the neighborhood, and from a little day excursion we took a couple weeks ago out to Point Loma Lighthouse.

 

2021 Book List

Well, here is the final version of my 2021 reading list.  Not even 20 books completed!  

Funny, because I'm reading something every day . . . prayers, Scriptures, one book or another that gets read over and over because it helps keep me positive and on track, encouraged and hopeful.   I don't tally these on my list.  Currently I'm also reading my way through the Orthodox Study Bible. I split it up into five somewhat arbitrary sections (History, Psalms, Wisdom, Prophets, Gospel, Epistles) and try to read a chapter from each section most days.  I do well for a while and then, oops!, three days have passed and I let life intervene too far.  Or I spent too much time scrolling through all the loveliness on social media platforms. But, as another blogger recently wrote, we need that too.  Beauty and goodness and wonderful photographs of places we would otherwise never get to visit and enjoy.

I wonder what 2022 will look like come next December.  Only time will tell.

A list of books read in 2021.

 

 

January 2021 - none

February 2021

1.   The Ethics of Beauty, Timothy C. Patitsas

March 2021 - none

April 2021 -  none

May 2021

2.  Seasons of Repentance: Lenten Homilies of St. John of Kronstadt

3.  Thinking Orthodox, Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou

4.  Sweet Bean Paste, Durian Sukegawa

June 2021 - none

July 2021

5.  The Windsor Knot, SJ Bennett

6.  Celebration of Faith, Vol. 1:  I Believe, Alexander Schmemann

7.  Booklets published by the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull, Scotland: Iona; Remembrance of Death; The Shape of Christ

8.  Miss Bunting, Angela Thirkell

August 2021

9.  Mary as the Early Christians Knew Her, Frederica Mathewes-Green

September 2021

10.  Island Magic, Elizabeth Goudge

11.  Orthodox Worship, Benjamin Williams and Harold Anstall

October 2021

12.  The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery

13.  For the Life of the World, Fr. Alexander Schmemann

14.  Charlotte Fairlie, D.E. Stevenson

15.  The Tall Stranger, D.E. Stevenson 

16.  Make Believe, Elizabeth Goudge

17.  Kate Hardy, D.E. Stevenson 

November 2021

18.  Yours Cheerfully, A.J. Pearce

19.  No Fond Return of Love, Barbara Pym

December 2021 - None