About a month back, we listened to a lecture on Charles Haddon Spurgeon as part of our Humanities studies. Motivated by that lecture, I started reading a book of his lectures to his students. However, I didn’t get too far before I wanted to start underlining and marking the things that stood out… unfortunately I couldn’t do that because it wasn’t my book - it was the family’s.
So, I requested that for Christmas I wanted a book of Spurgeon - I didn’t really care what - just as long as it was by him and was my own (so I could mark in it).
Well, guess what I got? Something far better than I had hoped for!
My Dad got this for me - a beautiful, hard-bound 10 volume (5 book) set of Spurgeon’s sermons - in one of my favorite colors, no less. Furthermore, they are mine - which means I can make as many marks and highlight as many things as I want - with impunity.
I’ve already read one sermon and am looking forward to reading more…
My brother, Victor, and I bought a camera a couple months ago - a Nikon D40.
So, I’m finally getting around to post some of the pictures I’ve taken (pretty much all of the ones of me were taken by Lydia):
These particular ones are from October through the middle of November:
I act for money, no other reason. Since I made my first picture in 1941, I haven’t done a thing worthwhile. I have never enjoyed making films, and I don’t like being a so-called film star. I haven’t the emotional make-up for it, nor the love of exhibitionism. I am much too shy. [I'd rather find] one good man I could love and marry and cook for and make a home for, who would stick around for the rest of my life. I never found him. If I had, I would have traded my career in a minute. Ava Gardner, arguably one of the most beautiful and talented women to grace the “silver screen”, quoted in the Arizona Republic’s article on her death, January 27, 1990.
Taken from “Verses of Virtue” - compiled and edited by Elizabeth Beall Phillips