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Date: 23 September 2004 01:50:32
Time :: 12:00am
Temperature :: 2 deg C
Conditions :: Less wind today, mostly sunny with a few clouds in the sky: Very Pleasant.
We've had one of Elicia's friends from home staying with us for a few days, she's here until this weekend and she's out having her first snowboarding lesson this morning. She seemed pretty nervous about it before she left, but at least she's giving it a go. I'll probably go out with her this afternoon, but right now it's a good chance to get some work done.
Books: I've just finished Annie Proulx's Close Range, a collection of short stories about country life in Wyoming. It's very good, very atmospheric, with great characters and an extraordinary evocation of the US farms and small country towns. I love the way Proulx writes places so well, Shipping News is still one of my favourites for the way it made me feel like maybe I too, like the main character, had family ties to the Newfoundland area. Close Range is good, but not of the same caliber - I've found all of Proulx's non-Shipping News books, specially the short stories, harder to get involved in.
And now in a change of pace I've started How Now Shall We Live by Charles Colson. I've only read the first eight chapters, but it's already very interesting and challenging. Colson's premise is that a Christian worldview can explain the world and its problems in a way no other ideology can, and that if we actively live out the worldview it will be the best witness to the world around us. A compelling argument, but I've got a feeling that as I keep reading I'm going to find Colson's definition of "the Christian worldview" the challenging part.