Thursday, December 30, 2010. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three;. But the greatest of these is love. Like a lily among thorns,. So is my love among the daughters. The Path of Your Commands. I run in the path of your commands,. For you have broadened my understanding. Love is the basic element that colours all others. It is the principle that moves us to obey God and to care for others. Love is not soppy and wishy-was.

Sunday, February 10, 2013. On finishing LOTR and picking up Jeeves. Last week, I finally finished Lord of the Rings. And so I am happy to report that I was not let down. Now I just need to reconsider The Hobbit. And decide if I should go back and give that book another go. I went back to my shelves and still wanted to read another of the long books awaiting my perusal. If you recall from a past post, I had chosen LOTR.

Except now instead of sleeping in a dorm at Columbia, I get to stay in a new apartment in Midtown! Just wanted to give a quick update while on the road here.

On what lights up that wintry, overcast corners of the mind. I walked through fire once. Not perfectly so, but changed, in a more pertinent way than a couple of scars on my toes.