Building the Family Library

So 1st Summer Session at the Lone star College is finally over and I can put Spanish behind me and focus on some things around home. I won’t have much to do now aside from the reading I’m planing to do so I’ve decided to take on a few challenges until the Summer comes to a close.

So my first challenge is organizing and cataloging the family Library. I’ve take some time to research the necessary steps and well it appears to be fairly simple. Though I won’t be using anything extravagant like the Dewy Decimal System or the system they have set up at the Library of Congress, I quite simply will place the family collection in general categories such as Health and Science and Nature; Children Stories and Picture Books; Christianity and Spiritual Growth; Government and History; Geography and Reference; Education and “How-Tos”; and Fiction and Non-Fiction. While I sort the books in those categories I will also sort them alphabetically according to author and book title. Easy, right?

We actually have a LOT of books and it’s going to take some time to catalog them all on my computer, but thankful with the advent of the Internet age it shouldn’t be all that bad. I found this rather ingenious website called “LibraryThing.” It allows me to search for my books online then add them to a virtual library. That way my database can be stored safely onto a web server and even shared with others.

Why am I going through all this trouble? Well, like I said, the family has a LOT of books and I just want to take up this challenge to make it a little easier to find something on any particular topic. It’s another mission of mine to help plant a strong interest in discovering the world through books in not only myself but my younger siblings. I regret not reading much as a child and It would seem I have some catching up to do so why not share the experience and make it something worthwhile for the whole family?

Can’t wait till it’s all finished: it’s going to look and feel fantastic.

Ciao for now!

~The Renaissance Man

"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

In the Beginning. . .

In the beginning was the Logos. And the Logos was set in motion creating all things seen and unseen. The Logos is the word and the word comes from the ultimate source of all things made and unmade. The Logos is Truth that comes from the source which all things were made and must return. The truth is the word and the word is conveyed in vast formations--plain and mysterious.

The logos is a living entity and exists in all things. Yet all things come from the source: a single entity that binds and creates all things known and unknown.

The Logos, the word, and the source are synonymous symbols by which Truth can be found. . .

Through the word. . .

Through light. . .

Through sound. . .

Through motion. . .

The Logos set in motion creates all things seen and unseen; known and unknown; made and unmade.

The Logos speaks this way so that you can better understand. . .

To speak through metaphors can the Truth be inspired that then when the Truth finds you can the Logos be understood.

Let the Logos speak.

Let the people hear.

Let the Truth find you.

For the Truth cannot be found lest the Truth finds you first.

Through the word, through light, through sound, and motion.

John 1:1 (ESV)

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life,^a and the life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."

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"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."