{"id":936,"date":"2005-07-14T00:49:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=936"},"modified":"2005-07-14T01:20:32","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T13:20:32","slug":"blog-meme-blah-blah-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/936","title":{"rendered":"Half-hearted blog meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

cos Aaron sort of asked<\/a>, here are the books are scattered around my bed:<\/p>\n

The Post-Evangelical<\/em>, Dave Tomlinson (lent by Cam H)
\nWhat is a Family?<\/em>, Edith Schaeffer (given by David H)
\nGrigorii Rasputin<\/em>, Alex de Jonge (stolen from Dad)
\nThe Lunchtime Runner<\/em> Vols I & II, by Cam Hockly (bought from Cam at LR2’s launch last Saturday night)
\nAn NIV & an NASB NT & Psalms
\nSoul Shaper<\/em>, Tony Jones (from the chaplaincy library)
\nThe NZ Prayer Book<\/em> (lent by the chaplain)<\/p>\n

O and in the lounge from memory there’s:
\nThe Act of Thinking<\/em> by Derek Melser
\nWhat Saint Paul Really Said<\/em> by NT Wright
\nan unpublished handwritten manuscript of a novel about suicide
\nBlue Mars<\/em> by Kim Stanley Robinson
\nOoooo….!!!!<\/em> by Hone Tuwhare
\nPenguin History of NZ<\/em> by Michael King. <\/p>\n

There are others but they’re slipping away.<\/p>\n

um Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/em> by Annie Dillard (in fact I better read that again ASAP<\/small>, dig this quote from last year<\/a>) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> by Robert Pirsig really blew my mind. So did Ender’s Game<\/em> by Orson Scott Card. EF Schumacher good. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars<\/em> trilogy make me want to get up in the morning. Wendell Berry is changing me. They all change me. I’m climbing Schild’s ladder, I suppose.<\/p>\n

I own maybe 100 books. I’d like to get rid of the stupid ones and get all the good ones in circulation; they’re pointless on (my (rented)) shelves. <\/p>\n

I was thinking babies probably start off thinking in emotions (like the bear in That Hideous Strength<\/em>), then later in poetry, and then when they start to speak, prose.<\/p>\n

Tony Robbins says happiness comes from within. You set your own parameters for happiness. Like you might have decided, “I will allow myself to be happy if I succeed in this business venture” and then the condition is met (or not) and you’re happy (or not). So once you realise that, he says, you can change the conditions, and access the boundless resource of happiness which is your birthright. I’m happy now because it’s my 9,342nd day alive. And that’s fuckn amazing! Ha!<\/p>\n

O yeah, and Richard and I are going to Fat Freddys Drop Friday the 22nd and we’d love you to come along too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

cos Aaron sort of asked, here are the books are scattered around my bed: The Post-Evangelical, Dave Tomlinson (lent by Cam H) What is a Family?, Edith Schaeffer (given by David H) Grigorii Rasputin, Alex de Jonge (stolen from Dad) The Lunchtime Runner Vols I & II, by Cam Hockly (bought from Cam at LR2’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}