Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
I said to a Full-blood friend that it seems that Christianity on the reservation has been purifying the Lakota religion long before Vatican II indicated it should be done. To this he replied, "Yes that is true. But don't forget. The Lakota religion had been purifying the Catholic Church too, especially since Vatican II. I don't know why it has taken you smart guys so long to get with it. *
This book was banned in Australia, gazetted in 1992 as "refused classification" and a prohibited …
This is a book that will fit handily in any saddlebag, in any creel, in any backpack, in any river runner's ammo can -- and in any picnickers' picnic basket. No good American should ever go into the woods again without this book and, for example, a hammer and a few pounds of 60-penny nails. Spike a few trees now and then whenever you enter an area condemned to chain saw massacre...you won't hurt the trees; they'll be grateful for the protection; and you may save the forest.
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
A lot to learn regarding how the Christian religion relates to the faith of the Lakota Indians.
3 stars
The Pipe and Christ is a hard book to rate. It was very slow going at the begining, much like the pastors and mediciene meetings on the Pine Ridge reservation upon which the book is based. The medice men talk in circles. They aren't trying to be difficult. From their perspective there is no direct path to God.
I was raised in a evangelical family in whcih anythign that wasn't expeclictly evangelcial Christian was wholly demonic. Some of the Jesuits who went into the discussion with the medicen men feared this may be similar. But throughout we learned so much about how the two practices, the author calls them religions but I wouldn't use that word, are not only not incompatible but in fact the Lakota teachings could shed light toward the truth Christ taught and the love he's had for his people throughout generations.
Prior to reading this I …
The Pipe and Christ is a hard book to rate. It was very slow going at the begining, much like the pastors and mediciene meetings on the Pine Ridge reservation upon which the book is based. The medice men talk in circles. They aren't trying to be difficult. From their perspective there is no direct path to God.
I was raised in a evangelical family in whcih anythign that wasn't expeclictly evangelcial Christian was wholly demonic. Some of the Jesuits who went into the discussion with the medicen men feared this may be similar. But throughout we learned so much about how the two practices, the author calls them religions but I wouldn't use that word, are not only not incompatible but in fact the Lakota teachings could shed light toward the truth Christ taught and the love he's had for his people throughout generations.
Prior to reading this I had heard of the "sun dance" mostly through the work of Russel Means and the books he and others wrote related to the second wounded knee in the US 1970s. This book actually described the event in a way I could understand. With the [uaually young adult] Sioux man hanging himself on a tree, fasting and praying until eventually his own weight was enough for the tree to rip his skin from staying there any longer. In a way far too similar to the crcifixtion than any white man really wants to see.
While I felt like I learned more respect to native tradiotions, while my wife's family isn't Sioux they are of another tribe that hasn't been as lucky to have anyone still practicing the old ways, and I learned more about my own faith learnign the author of this work had a pretty shady past himself leaves an emptiness in the stomach such that I can't muster more than 3 stars at this time.
After earning his business degree, Chris Bailey turned down several lucrative job offers to pursue …
I got the audiobook on CD from the public library. I ended up getting the dead tree edition too. Like many self-help books there are little exercise throughout it that the author wants you to do, that are impossible to do whilst safely driving an automobile. I think having both editions out at the same time will be worth it, rather than just reading it, or just listening to it.
@fu@libranet.de@darnell@one.darnell.one well now you do! This book is a direct sequel of the only V property that Johnson has IP rights to, the original '82 miniseries. As such it ignores the rest of the franchises: the '83 miniseries sequel, the '83-'85 TV series, the 80s mass market paperback novels, and the 2000s reboot TV series. I'll let you know if its worth picking up in and of itself, once I finish it, but so far, I'd recommend all of the above regardless.
After earning his business degree, Chris Bailey turned down several lucrative job offers to pursue …
To save you some time, I've put together a chart that has everything you need to track your time and energy levels for one week. Just head on over to the website for this book --productivityprojectbook.com--to download and print off the chart!
Having a dedicated URL for tidbits like this is really nice to your reader. What is not really nice is if you don't maintain the domain. Your book is going to be around longer than your webpage is. If you aren't willing to properly keep up with that don't do it. At least redirect to the Wayback machine or another archive. Mywebsite.com/book/info is probably easier to support long term than mybookinfowebsite.com. I spent way too much time between a search engine and the wayback machine finding what he had that I would have been more productive if I produced it from scratch (no pun intended).
@morlock@bookwyrm.social its been almost a week and I havne't been able to pick it up since then. Though some of that is because I'm not sure where it is.
Spiritually called to take part in Lakota Sioux rituals, the author of The Pipe and …
I was incredibly disappointed today. While procrastinating at work today and updating the author's entry in our database, rather than what I'm paid to do, I learned that Fr. Stolzman was accused of sexual abuse and child pornography. Even though he was acquitted it removes many of the warm feelings I had had whilst reading this book :-(
@morlock@bookwyrm.social Reading Rabbit HIll in the '90s I remember his use of "queer ideas" seemed really odd to me. He also wrote "Mr. Revere and I" about Paul Revere's horse which wasn't very good, and "I discovered Columbus" about Christopher Columbus's parrot which is in my library book queue.
