William Faulkner book, "As I lay Dying" may have been told from a setting outside "this house". At least part of the story was told outside, and even inside a farmhouse. Faulkner's farmhouse picture here reminds me, in some ways, of my Grandparents farm house I went to often as a boy.I do like reading and this book is in my top 5. I just love the language of the book. I have read it a few times. Then I heard William Faulkner voice on tape reading the book. It is like music.
So colorful. So interesting. It has a rhythm and a beat. The words and names sound southern and together they are so specific to the what this book is.
Reading or Running? Hard to say which has been better? Looking at this favorite running trail
below, Millcreek's "pipeline" trail, near our former home in Utah, makes running seem to be the winner, maybe.? Course I have a lot to ponder when I think of all the interesting things that I have read in books. Where better, however, to think about them than running. Better yet, where better to think about nothing, than on a trail like this one below.
This is just my 3rd post but I have been thinking about doing a blog for quite a while. The challenge is what to say and who to say it to. I have invited a lot of friends, family and neighbors to look in. Sometimes these blogs give a person a "peek into the life of someone" they know or care about. On the other hand this blog may be more about "things and thoughts" than day-to-day life. Time will tell if it catches any interest.
Thinking more about books, since I have posted some thoughts about Faulkner, I recall how excited I found it to go to the library some 50++ years ago. Maybe it was especially interesting because I did it myself at a very young age. I was probably about 8 years old. I went to Church at the edge of the town in Pocatello Idaho. The chapel was right across the street from the Library. Primary for the kids took place in the middle of the week. I sometimes would ride my bike to go to Primary and then afterward I would go across the street. Interesting how that excitement I felt in this library never left. Even so it was really a lot of years later before I started a "lot of reading".
The Library above can be seen in the photograph with the chapel. It is just to the left across the intersection. Both buildings have long ago been taken down. On the front wall of this chapel was a painting that I really liked. It was by an artist named Minerva Teichert whose art was found in many early Mormon Chapels and buildings in the West. In this chapel there was a full painting all across the front wall. It was of a pioneer woman leading a covered wagon and two oxen. The picture had next to the pioneer lady a faint impression of "Angel Soldiers" coming along side of her in their own wagon. I have a picture of this painting in my home office.
So these "Random Specific Thoughts" seemed like good ideas to think about or just to be part of this blog today, Labor Day.
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." -Linus Pauling, 1901 - 1994
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to **correlate all its contents." -H. P. Lovecraft, 1890 - 1937
2 comments:
Very good pictures! I loved the old Pocatello picture. I can almost smell the river ;)
cool pictures
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