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Count Your Blessings 16: Books

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I feel almost silly explaining why books ae a blessing, but they are. I won’t go into the debate about print versus digital, even though I think there will always be a need for print books no matter how advanced and convenient society becomes. However, I will admit that I do adore my Kindle.

I’ve written before about the great blessing that the written language is and the blessings of books stem from that and branches out. Books are more than just words on paper bound between two covers. Books are an experience. You get to look at them, hold, read, inspect them, interpret them, question them, take care of them or demolish them with love and frequent use.

When I think about times in history when books were burned it makes me weary for the future. It seems that history always repeats itself in some capacity. I won’t lie and pretend that I’d defend the content of every book ever printed, but I wouldn’t help to destroy any, even the ones I don’t like. I’m blessed to live a world where there are more books than any one person could ever read, and blessed that I have an opportunity to try to read as many of them as I can.

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ToiBox Blog Weekly Recap: 11/15/14

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Check out my Recent Posts links or visit the ToiBox Topics to see what I was up to this week, but first try…

Who Censored Roger Rabbit & A Discovery of Witches

This cool Pin.


Last Saturday I posted an Authors Insight after my Weekly recap. Over at You Tube I posted an episode of, Vinyl on My Mind: The Best of Benny Goodman.

I started out this week with Sample Sunday 58- It’s Like the Full Moon.

On Monday, I posted my Top 5 Marvel Heroes.

On Tuesday, I observed Veteran’s Day. Then I added to my Character files Teddy’s opinion on the Eternal Curse. I forgot to share my visit to the Blood and Ink blog, so please check it out now.

On Wednesday, I posted a Post from the Past breaking down Sinclair Manor.

On Thursday, I posted a Tea and Conversation about fathers.

And yesterday, I posted a special Friday Forecast which featured my 4th Mock Squid Soup Review: Space Battleship Yamato. Then I posted a review of The Once and Future King. Lastly I shared a post I contributed to on Daily Dose of Gratitude.

Thanks for hanging out with me this week. I hope to see you again next week.

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Dear World | Daily dose of gratitude

It’s that time of year again to say thanks and be grateful. It’s always a pleasure to receive an invite to share my thoughts and feelings over at a Daily Dose of Gratitude and this year has been no different. This is a great blog to read whenever you need a little pick-me-up. Yesterday it was my turn to share again and I hope you will stop by and see what I had to say.

*Today’s letter is written by fellow blogger and wonderful writer Toi Thomas.*

Dear World,

Sometimes life gets hard in ways that are difficult to explain. You look around to your support group, the people you have in your life like family and friends, for comfort but sometimes it’s not quite enough…

To read more, visit: Dear World | Daily dose of gratitude.