Sky Watch Friday!

Jacob's ladder?

Ho hum. We had a rather UN-interesting overcast sky. Sorry to bore you. Bye.

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Wait! Before you leave, let me tell you what was happening in the foreground. A rooftop air conditioning unit malfunctioned and set off the smoke detectors. This was not a drill; we had to evacuate the building immediately. There were LOTS of emergency vehicles outside. Apparently, the automated system also notifies the adjoining suburbs... wow!

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No one was hurt, and I have no idea how bad the rooftop unit was, but I could not see any damage from inside the building.

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I have two questions for you. Choose a place... home, school, work, whatever. If you had to evacuate immediately, what would you take with you and what would you miss the most if all the property was consumed?

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Here's my answer: I grabbed a book off my desk, because it is part of a discussion group. (The camera was not optional; it's permanently attached.) If the whole place were damaged by fire or water, I would miss all the photographs I have stored in the hard drive. Precious few have been saved to a Web-based album.

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Visit Tom if you want to play along with Sky Watch Friday.

beaucoup books

Friends, I have a dilemma. I have too many books. There seems to be some kind of crazy homing device in books that causes them to come to me in unmanageable quantities.

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I like books. A lot. But as much as I would like to have every single wall of my home FILLED with books, floor-to-ceiling, that's just not practical. Now there are some books that I like more than others. (And some that I don't like at all.)

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I can give some away to friends or donate some of the good books to my church's library. But it's not the good books that I have a problem with.

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But what do I do about the books I don't like? Books that I feel are misrepresenting truth. Books that I disagree with so much, they sometimes make me angry. I don't believe some of the conclusions or applications that a number of these authors come to, and I don't want to be the one causing anyone else to think that way, so what do I do?

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For some reason, I have always thought that book burning is evil. It is a thing that I associated with Nazis. But I'm not confiscating anyone else's books here, I'm talking about my own property. Do you think it's bad to burn books? Can you offer any alternative solutions?

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Image by Catherine Jamieson