The Flight Of Shadows

I just finished The Flight of Shadows  by my favorite author George Macdonald. This is a book I found while looking for public domain matrial to load on the new Sony PRS-T1 ereader. I have read a few of Macdonald’s books and enjoyed them but this one which I was unaware existed is the best I have read of his yet! I have included some quotes below.

“No one who loves and chooses a secret can be of the pure in heart that shall see God.”

"Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.”

“One thing I am sure of—that, however any good thing came, I did not make it; I can only be glad and thankful that in me it came to the surface, to tell me how beautiful must he be who thought of it, and made it in me. Then surely one is nearer, if not to God himself, yet to the things God loves, in the country than amid ugly houses—things that could not have been invented by God, though he made the man that made them.”

Truly a life changing tale for those who have an abiding faith in the love of Jesus!

Wow, The Power Of Expert Writing!

He fled to his usual refuge, that of hoping for some unforeseen turn of  Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. Let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed to avow, and his mind will be bent on all the possible issues that may deliver him from the calculable results of that position. Let him live outside his income, or shirk the resolute honest work that brings wages, and he will presently find himself dreaming of a possible benefactor, a possible simpleton who may be cajoled into using his interest, a possible state of mind in some possible person not yet forthcoming. Let him neglect the responsibilities of his office, and he will inevitably anchor himself on the chance that the thing left undone may turn out not to be of the supposed importance. Let him betray his friend's confidence, and he will adore that same cunning complexity called Chance, which gives him the hope that his friend will never know. Let him forsake a decent craft that he may pursue the gentilities of a profession to which nature never called him, and his religion will infallibly be the worship of blessed Chance, which he will believe in as the mighty creator of success. The evil principle deprecated in that religion is the orderly sequence by which the seed brings forth a crop after its kind.

Excerpt for Silas Marner by Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot).

The Sony PRS-T1 eReader

Sony PRS-T1 6 Digital E-Ink Pearl eReader with Wi-Fi

I have wanted an e-reader for quite some time now but the price and compatibility were never right. Enter Sony's latest with Wi-Fi and a sale price of $99 and I took the plunge. To make a long story short I am quite pleased. In the video review below I cover a few functions I have not yet seen in many of the fine reviews I used to make my decision to make the purchase. In the video I use Google Mobile to access all of my Google information including Gmail and Google Calendar. I also plug in an  Altec Lansing iM-237 Orbit speaker that I review here.

This is a great e-reader and to get the most out of it I recommend you use these online recourses!

• www.calibre.com

• www.archive.org

• www.gutenberg.org

• www.books.google.com

• www.openlibrary.org

Happy e-reading!

Fishing the Skyway Bridge!

Went with Capt. Scott on a 10 hour fishing adventure around the Skyway Bridge. The weather was a bit brisk but we had a great time!

 

There was plenty of shipping activity to see in the channel and we watched as the Coast Guard buoy tender Joshua Appleby returned to port under the Skyway!

We did catch a few fish but nothing to impressive.

Here was my lunch.

McCamping 12

Great time is the chilly weather with lots of friends that is what it was. This is number 12 for me as the years roll by. They are always a great time of fellowship! Thank you to everyone who makes it possible!

Fort Desoto camp ground is such a great place to have family camping adventures. Just enough nature without being to primitive for the more civilized among us.

There was lots of food …… oh yeah!

There was also a great tree for my nest! I found out with some help from some folks at Dave’s Garden forum that this tree is a Conocarpus aka Buttonwood Mangrove!

No one missed church on Sunday. And history was made when Sean lost a baby tooth!

Until next time God bless!