It is the end of the month and here I am again. I completed my treatment last Friday. At the end it was more of an endurance thing since I was getting very tired during the day, and the tiredness still lingers even today, though things are slowly getting better.
We are scheduled to be in Seattle and to serve the class there on Saturday, February 11th. We plan to stay the night and visit the class the following morning (hopefully with Bev Christiansen in tow with us). Then we'll drive back the the BSRC and probably depart for Southern California on Tuesday.
I need to write a new talk for our memorial season and I have been thinking a lot about the book "The Cross and the Lynching Tree". There has got to be lots of good stuff in the topic for me to draw on, but I'm just getting started, so not much to share on that for now. It does remind me of a talk given by G. R. Pollock years ago called "The Wood of Life". I need to try to find it and see if it is suitable for a redo.
I also need to look up some of the books that are now available at the library through Kindle. It will be interesting to see if any of the titles that I have in mind are available.
That's all I have for now. Slowly getting better and looking forward to the Southern California trip and the succeeding trip through Texas to Mississippi and back.
by grace,
Wade
Ps 23:4 (NIV)
4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
A New Topic
This last weekend I had the opportunity to listen to a CSPAN2 BookTV interview with a man by the name of Chris Hedges. That name will be entirely new to most of you, it was to me, and yet, he may be an icon to many of you. Certainly he has a wealth of experiences and the resulting perspicacity to account for an in depth three hour interview in which I hardly ever heard him repeat himself. The interview was referred to me by my youngest son, Stephen, who, though not consecrated, has an uncanny insight into the scriptures and their meaning in our lives.
Mr. Hedges comes from a religious family. I don't remember the denomination, but his father was (is) a minister and his early life was affected by his upbringing. When he decided to enter into journalism as a career, his perspective on the world and the control of the world began to change. Thus, now he believes we are largely influenced by powers bigger and stronger than us, and, almost, to the point of being out of control. His list of books is as follow:
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Death of the Liberal Class
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
What Every Person Should Know About War
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
I Don't Believe in Atheists
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Iraq: A War
There are several other books that I will read in the near future that touch upon the subject of our being influenced by society at large to ignore the import of the "cross" in our lives. One of the books is called "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" by James H. Cone. It touches upon the proclivity of the white church in the south to ignore lynchings. Another is "Been In The Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery" by Leon F. Litwack. Both books are now available in the library and I will pick them up tomorrow. Other books, based upon the reading habits of Chris Hedges include:
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Collected Essays of George Orwell
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
I can hardly wait to get started on these books and this topic.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13
Mr. Hedges comes from a religious family. I don't remember the denomination, but his father was (is) a minister and his early life was affected by his upbringing. When he decided to enter into journalism as a career, his perspective on the world and the control of the world began to change. Thus, now he believes we are largely influenced by powers bigger and stronger than us, and, almost, to the point of being out of control. His list of books is as follow:
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Death of the Liberal Class
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
What Every Person Should Know About War
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
I Don't Believe in Atheists
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Iraq: A War
There are several other books that I will read in the near future that touch upon the subject of our being influenced by society at large to ignore the import of the "cross" in our lives. One of the books is called "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" by James H. Cone. It touches upon the proclivity of the white church in the south to ignore lynchings. Another is "Been In The Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery" by Leon F. Litwack. Both books are now available in the library and I will pick them up tomorrow. Other books, based upon the reading habits of Chris Hedges include:
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Collected Essays of George Orwell
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
I can hardly wait to get started on these books and this topic.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Checking Back In
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Hard to believe it is 2012, but that is what the date says!
Things have been going along pretty good, so there has been no incentive to really write anything much. I finished half way through the radiation therapy yesterday (and chemo too), so, I begin part two next Monday. I have had no side affects except for getting tired from not enough sleep. The steroid pill causes me to be wide awake at 4:00 a.m. after about 6 1/2 hours of sleep, so I get up. Then after breakfast, about 8:00 a.m. I often feel the need for a short nap before heading off for treatment.
My diet has been pretty good. We try to keep it as alkaline as possible, with fruits and vegetables and turkey, chicken and fish for the protein. I also am getting used to tofu - it tastes great in stir fry, etc. I drink lots of green tea and water and that helps too. I usually spread breakfast food over the morning from the time I get up to about 7:00 a.m. and then we have a substantial lunch. Lately we have been making a "green drink" for dinner - about a cup of veggie and apple/pear freshly ground in our new juicer.
One of the side affects of "something" is that I am still constipated. Can't figure it out, but it sure is frustrating. Seems like something ought to work. I have decided yesterday to OD on magnesium until I have diarrhea and then to back off. We'll see if that works at all. Constipation has been a life long problem, so it is nothing new, but now it worries me a lot.
When we finish the radiation treatments this month we plan on driving to Southern California and then to Gulf Port for the convention there. On the way we plan on stopping and seeing Dr. Bryzinski in Houston for his medical clinic. I have decided to give him a try. We should return home by the last weekend in March.
That's about it for now. I probably raised a lot of questions in people's minds, so send me some emails and ask!
For now, thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts.
Rom 13:9-14
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Hard to believe it is 2012, but that is what the date says!
Things have been going along pretty good, so there has been no incentive to really write anything much. I finished half way through the radiation therapy yesterday (and chemo too), so, I begin part two next Monday. I have had no side affects except for getting tired from not enough sleep. The steroid pill causes me to be wide awake at 4:00 a.m. after about 6 1/2 hours of sleep, so I get up. Then after breakfast, about 8:00 a.m. I often feel the need for a short nap before heading off for treatment.
My diet has been pretty good. We try to keep it as alkaline as possible, with fruits and vegetables and turkey, chicken and fish for the protein. I also am getting used to tofu - it tastes great in stir fry, etc. I drink lots of green tea and water and that helps too. I usually spread breakfast food over the morning from the time I get up to about 7:00 a.m. and then we have a substantial lunch. Lately we have been making a "green drink" for dinner - about a cup of veggie and apple/pear freshly ground in our new juicer.
One of the side affects of "something" is that I am still constipated. Can't figure it out, but it sure is frustrating. Seems like something ought to work. I have decided yesterday to OD on magnesium until I have diarrhea and then to back off. We'll see if that works at all. Constipation has been a life long problem, so it is nothing new, but now it worries me a lot.
When we finish the radiation treatments this month we plan on driving to Southern California and then to Gulf Port for the convention there. On the way we plan on stopping and seeing Dr. Bryzinski in Houston for his medical clinic. I have decided to give him a try. We should return home by the last weekend in March.
That's about it for now. I probably raised a lot of questions in people's minds, so send me some emails and ask!
For now, thank you all for your prayers and good thoughts.
Rom 13:9-14
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
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