Positive Post and Maybe a Stretch 4 of 108 (restart)

Always a backup...can be positive thoughts, if prayers offend.

LFS, liz

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children."  ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

October Reading

Pages read October  (21,815 of 27,108).

Books read thru October 86 of 108.

Best for Adults, The Exquiste:

Read in October:

The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts  by Maja Safstrom 74 of 108 with 120 pages (19,269 of 27,108)

The ExquisiteBook by Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman, and Jenny Volvovski 75 of 108 with 144 pages (19,413 of 27,108)

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown 76 of 108 with 158 pages (19,571 of 27,108)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 77 of 108 with 283 pages (19,854 of 27,108)

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19^th Century New York by Stacy Horn 78 of 108 with 304 pages (20,158 of 27,108)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 79 of 108 with 288 pages (20,689 of 27,108)

When Books Went to War:  The stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning 80 of 108 with 384 pages (21,703 of 27,108)

Church of Spies:  The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling 81 of 108 with 272 pages (21,345 of 27,108)

Seven Events That Made America America by Larry Schweikart 82 of 108 with 358 pages (21,703 of 27,108)

True Detective Nathan Heller Series Book 1 by Max Allan Collins 83 of 108 with 358 pages (21,703 of 27,108)

10 Things I can do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh 84 of 108 with 40 pages (21,743 of 27,108)

Every Breath We Take by Maya Ajmera and Paul Meisel 85 of 108 with 32 pages (21,775 of 27,108)

Ice Caps Melting by Anne Rockwell 86 of 108 with 40 pages (21,815 of 27,108)

February Reading Tallies

Pages Read from January:  (3207 of 108,000)

Books Read from January 7 of 108.

Read in February:

Paper, The Daily Lobo, 5 February 2018 of 12 pages (3219 of 108,000)

Paper, The Daily Lobo, 8 February 2018 of 8 pages (3227 pages of 108,000)

Class,  Piercing the Veil: Mystics and Peak Experiences  2018 of 54 pages (3281 of 108,000)

Paper, The Daily Lobo, 12 February 2018 of 12 pages (3293 of 108,000)

Pandora, by Robert Burleigh / ill.  Raul Colon book 8 of 108 and 32 pages (3325 of 108,000)

Poems Have Roots, by Lilian Moore / ill. Tad Hills book 9 of 108 and 44 pages (3369 of 108,000)

Legal Requirements for the sale and Purchase of Drug Products Containing Psuedoephedrine, Ephedrine, and Phenylpropanolamine Document of 4 pages (3373 of 108,000)

Paper, The Daily Lobo, 5 February 2018 of 12 pages (3385 of 108,000)

Poetry Builders:  Sophie and Sadie Build a Sonnet by St. John and ill. Luann Marten 10 of 108 and 32 pages (3417 of 108,000)

Paper, Albuquerque Journal, 14 Feb 2018 of 30 pages (3447 of 108,000)

Just Joking:  Animal Riddles by Lewis, J Patrick 11 of 108 and of 208 pages (3655 of 108,000)

Siesta by Nakamura, Joel and ill. Joel Nakamura 12 of 108 and 24 pages (3679 of 108,000)

Someday Narwhal by Mantchev, Lisa and ill by Hyewon Yum 13 of 108 and 32 pages (3711 of 108,00)

Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman 14 of 108 and pages of 38 (3749 of 108,000)

Creature, The by Bates, Helen and ill. 15 of 108 and pages of 28 (3777 of 108,000)

North Woods Girl by Bissonette, Ammee and ill by Claudia McGGehee16 of 108 and pages  32 (3809 of 108,000)

King of the Sky by Davies, Nicola and ill by Laura Carlin 17 of 108 and 52 pages (3861 of 108,000)

Newsletter, Harvard Women’s Health Watch March 2017 of 8 pages (3869 of 108,000)

Poetry Builders:  Nina and Nolan Nonsense Poems by Bullard, Lisa and ill Patrick Girouard 18 of 108 and 32 pages (3901 of 108,000)

Poetry Builders:  Henry and Hala Build a Haiku by Higgins, Nadia and ill Brian Caleb Duncan 19 of 108 and 32 pages (3933 of 108,000)

Message of the Birds, The by Westerlund, Kate and ill Feridun Oral Duncan 20 of 108 and 28 pages (3961 of 108,000)

Poetry Builders:  Penelope and Pip Build a Prose Poem by Heiden, Pete and ill Amy Huntington 21 of 108 and 32 pages (3993 of 108,000)

In the Middle of Fall by Henkes, Kevin and ill Laura Dronzek 22 of 108 and 32 pages (4025 of 108,000)

Magazine, Life & Style 3 October 2016 72 pages (4097 of 108,000)

Poetry Builders:  Ana and Adam Build an Acrostic by Peterson-Hilleque and ill Winifred Barnuman-Newman 23 of 108 books and 32 pages (4129 of 108,000)

Blueberry Girl by Gaiman, Neil and ill Charles Vess 24 of 108 with 32 pages (4161 of 108,00)

Origins by Brown, Dan 24 of 108 and 480 pages (4641 of 108,000)

My Journey to Post 108 Poems I Have Written (1 of 108)

Monks Lay Down Their Dust

by Liz Toombs

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.  My life from the Ruach*.

Monks, monsters to a non-believers ‘only they themselves have control’.

Earth or other matter.  A cloud of finely powered substance.

Sawdust, fire ashes, skin cells, and other earthly remains.

Those who dust, are considered dust ­­ low or humble being.

From ancient times thru today, i know dust.

i might stay awhile then shake the dust from my feet when i  leave.

Dust can catch in my throat, but i don’t want to lick the dust.

Nor do i want to bite the dust.

i want to make the dust to fly with the words of my work.

i want to dust off Bishop, Dickinson, Keats, Plath, Whitman and Wordsworth.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.  My life from the Ruach.

From ancient times thru today, i know dust.

No monk here, just a simple piece of dust trying to live and write.

i may never leave anyone in the dust, but my words might fly.

May i write like a monk lives, may a monk live beyond their dust.

©Liz Toombs 2017 (1 of 108)

*Ruach, is an ancent term meaning Breath of God.