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well, i don't post much to this place anymore. i suppose there's lots of reasons for that--i've been busy (like everyone, i know), i've been keeping off the internet a bit, and other reasons. i'm not sure i'm really all that enamored with keeping a blog. that's a part of it, too. but i'm writing here now, so i guess i still want to at times at least.
much has been going on globally--gaza and greece come to mind. there have been solidarity actions all over, including here in colorado. the books to prisoner project here is going along pretty well. we're getting books and we are starting to get our name and address out to some prisoners in Colorado.
we're finally gonna eat the pinto beans that we grew in our garden. i remember writing something about that on this blog; the beans are in a pot on the stove right now.
what do people read? i'm curious. write a comment about it if you are so inclined.
i've been swimming lately at a city pool. it's great--it makes my leg feel better and makes me feel so much better in many ways. it's great to find some exercise while i'm getting this leg shit worked out.
now i'm at home and today has been pretty good. the other day i ran into an old friend who i used to work with in archaeology. we were on one crazy project together that went through the winter for months. he doesn't live here and it was really kinda incredible to just see him at this cafe. it was great talking and catching up a bit. lives are maybe more interconnected than i usually realize. or maybe it's mostly random chance, with a few influencing factors.
awhile ago, a person i've been corresponding with who is currently in prison sent me a cd. one of the songs has the lyrics:
until everyone has everything they need
i really like that.
much has been going on globally--gaza and greece come to mind. there have been solidarity actions all over, including here in colorado. the books to prisoner project here is going along pretty well. we're getting books and we are starting to get our name and address out to some prisoners in Colorado.
we're finally gonna eat the pinto beans that we grew in our garden. i remember writing something about that on this blog; the beans are in a pot on the stove right now.
what do people read? i'm curious. write a comment about it if you are so inclined.
i've been swimming lately at a city pool. it's great--it makes my leg feel better and makes me feel so much better in many ways. it's great to find some exercise while i'm getting this leg shit worked out.
now i'm at home and today has been pretty good. the other day i ran into an old friend who i used to work with in archaeology. we were on one crazy project together that went through the winter for months. he doesn't live here and it was really kinda incredible to just see him at this cafe. it was great talking and catching up a bit. lives are maybe more interconnected than i usually realize. or maybe it's mostly random chance, with a few influencing factors.
awhile ago, a person i've been corresponding with who is currently in prison sent me a cd. one of the songs has the lyrics:
until everyone has everything they need
i really like that.
posted by matt iv at 5:32 PM
8 Comments:
I like reading your posts a lot. They're fun to read while more often than not give me things to think about.
What do I read? I haven't read much lately, I guess. I think the last book I read was A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson--good book. A humorous account of two middle aged men trying to walk the Appalachain Trail. I've read it before, though.
There really hasn't been much that has captured my interest lately, I guess. The one library I used to go to all the time was flooded this past summer.
If you have any recommendations for ME, I wouldn't mind. :)
I also understand what you mean about being busy. I have all sorts of things I want to blog about--keeping people updated with the baby stuff, etc. But then I get on the computer and all of a sudden I don't really feel like it. LOL.
What do I read?
If you are wondering about books - Song of Fire and Ice
C-Murder turned me on to these books, You should check them out, I bet you'd like them.
I'm only just starting the second book - but the first one is just about my favorite book I've read. I haven't read a lot over the past 10 years or so though.
I actually read the first book of the Song of Fire and Ice series when I lived in that basement apartment in Fargo--Game of Thrones. It was right when I moved in, before school started. But I never did go on and read the next ones (maybe they weren't available then...I don't know when the second one was published).
Let me know what you think of it.
I always come back to "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey.
I just can't seem to ever finish it, yet I just can't get enough of this book. Everytime I read a bit more before I let it rest for months at a time sometimes.
Some of his observations, thoughts and comments absolutely resonate within me (I would be happy to share if you like.)
It also gives me hope for our outdoors as some of the things that he talks about that were changing for the worse back then have actually seemingly gone full circle and society has done or is starting to do the right thing concerning them.
Beyond that he strays off into random stories about the Moab area.
And I distinctly remember reading part of this book last weekend and thinking "I think Matt would really enjoy this book".
I know we have probably talked about this before, but if you haven't read it yet you should. I would send you mine, but I'm still reading all the way through it myself.
What have you been reading?
One title that seems to pop into my head at random times is "Confessions of a crap artist", that was a book I remember you reading many years ago.
I just realized that the reason I never finish it is because in some strange way I don't want it to end! I know this comment isn't so much for any of you as it is for my own personal recognition.
Thanks for bringing me to that revelation Matt!
Yeah, ltd, that makes sense--not finishing the book because you don't want it to end. I've felt that before.
Confessions of a Crap Artist! That's wild that you still remember that book--that was quite awhile ago.
I read a book by D.H. Lawrence over the wintery holidays called Sons and Lovers. It was quite a reading experience. Then I started reading a book called Growth of the soil by a Norwegian author named Knut Hamsun. I had seen the title somewhere and thought it looked interesting and it is a good book so far but I found out some pretty terrible things about the author. Apparently, when the Nazis occupied Norway he was a Nazi sympathizer. This book was published in 1917, several years before the Nazi party but I cannot understand how the same person could write a book like that and then believe in something so horrible. It's really unsettling.
I checked a book out from the library a few days ago called American Gulag: Inside US Immigration Prisons. I started reading it and it's pretty incredible.
I read a couple of short stories by Ursula K. LeGuin recently; I've read them before but I reread them for a small reading/discussion group that I'm part of. The stories are "The Rock That Changed Things" (it's included in the book Fisherman of the Inland Sea) and "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" (the latter can be found several places online, including this blog).
Since I got back to town, I also read the comic saga of "Iron-Wolf." It's space opera from the early 1970s (before Star Wars!). It's pretty ridiculous but was fun to read. Splashed across the panels are anti-gravity wood spaceships, knee-high leather boots, blasters, and good old-fashioned swords! Speaking of comics, I read the first collection of Amazing Spiderman. It collects the first twenty or so issues of the Amazing Spiderman, beginning in 1962. It was fun to read, even though it was mostly one super-villain after another (the Chameleon, the Sandman, the Vulture, Dr. Octopus, the Big Man and the Enforcers, Mysterio, the Green Goblin, the Lizard, the Scorpion....)!
And I read the two most recent issues of Usagi Yojimbo, which is a comic that takes place in feudal Japan and features a ronin samurai rabbit. Stan Sakai writes and illustrates it and he is a really good storyteller. I really enjoyed reading the most recent one, "Outlaw".
That sounds like a lot of reading. I wish I would make more time for it... I waste enough on the net.
Anyway, I looked up that book Growth of the soil and I'm absolutely going to check it out! It actually inspires me to finish Desert Solitare! Thanks!!!!
That is unbelievable, like you said, that a man who made this statement "[i]nsisting that the intricacies of the human mind ought to be the main object of modern literature, to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow", could hold Hitler and the nazi's with any regard. I noticed that he was around 80 years old when this came to light though, so hopefully he had just lost his mind in his old age and hadn't carried those feelings back when he wrote that book.
Also, that comic about the Samuri rabbit sounds good. I think it is good to read things that are so far removed from reality.
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