TREASURES FOUND

My aunt & uncle are in town visiting my parents.  They were hitting up a city wide garage sale so I tagged along. First of all for the entertainment.  The four of them are hilarious together.  It is my dad's sister and her husband and my mom and dad.  To see my dad and his sister tease each other is just pure entertainment and makes me see how they probably were as kids.  And second because you never know what treasures you  might find.  Here are mine:

Found this so cute table runner or dish towel or something.  But thought it was just adorable vintage looking.  It was in a box of free stuff.  I dug through the box & snatched it up.

Also in the free box was this pottery barn barn plate.  It has a tiny chip on it, but other than that it is fine.

This is were my new free pottery barn plate and new free table runner/dish cloth.  Love the new additions to my table.

Came across this cute little book for 25 cents.  Thought maybe it might have some cute projects to do.

Projects like how to make a teepee or how to make a hammock.  Fun.

I think I talked about awhile back wanting to get new bedding.  I wasn't sure if I wanted completely new bedding or something to match the quilt my Gram made me.  Well I came across these adorable vintage looking sheets and they go PERFECT with my Gram's quilt.  Awesome.  So cute.

Here are the two together.  The green and pink.  I never would have found anything patterned to go with this quilt, but I think they blend super well.

I had so much fun hanging with my parents and aunt & uncle.  They wore me out.  Glad I went for the entertainment & the great finds.  Total spent for the day $4.25.  YEA!

Peace, Love, & Hugs.

WHAT AM I READING?

Amazon.com Review

By melding love, science, and religion into a primer on personal growth, M. Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book. Even to this day, Peck remains at the forefront of spiritual psychology as a result of The Road Less Traveled. In the era of I'm OK, You're OK, Peck was courageous enough to suggest that "life is difficult" and personal growth is a "complex, arduous and lifelong task." His willingness to expose his own life stories as well as to share the intimate stories of his anonymous therapy clients creates a compelling and heartfelt narrative. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Psychotherapy is all things to all people in this mega-selling pop-psychology watershed, which features a new introduction by the author in this 25th anniversary edition. His agenda in this tome, which was first published in 1978 but didn't become a bestseller until 1983, is to reconcile the psychoanalytic tradition with the conflicting cultural currents roiling the 70s. In the spirit of Me-Decade individualism and libertinism, he celebrates self-actualization as life's highest purpose and flirts with the notions of open marriage and therapeutic sex between patient and analyst. But because he is attuned to the nascent conservative backlash against the therapeutic worldview, Peck also cites Gospel passages, recruits psychotherapy to the cause of traditional religion (he even convinces a patient to sign up for divinity school) and insists that problems must be overcome through suffering, discipline and hard work (with a therapist.) Often departing from the cerebral and rationalistic bent of Freudian discourse for a mystical, Jungian tone more compatible with New Age spirituality, Peck writes of psychotherapy as an exercise in "love" and "spiritual growth," asserts that "our unconscious is God" and affirms his belief in miracles, reincarnation and telepathy. Peck's synthesis of such clashing elements (he even throws in a little thermodynamics) is held together by a warm and lucid discussion of psychiatric principles and moving accounts of his own patients' struggles and breakthroughs. Harmonizing psychoanalysis and spirituality, Christ and Buddha, Calvinist work ethic and interminable talking cures, this book is a touchstone of our contemporary religio-therapeutic culture.
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The Road Less Traveled

I am about half way through this book, and I wouldn't say that I agree with everything that is written.  I would say it is a book I will be picking here and there a few things from it to apply to my life.  

WHAT AM I READING?

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, and yet it's as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer. Hemingway's famously plain declarative sentences linger in the mind like poetry: "Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that." His cast of thirtysomething dissolute expatriates--Brett and her drunken fiancé, Mike Campbell, the unhappy Princeton Jewish boxer Robert Cohn, the sardonic novelist Bill Gorton--are as familiar as the "cool crowd" we all once knew. No wonder this quintessential lost-generation novel has inspired several generations of imitators, in style as well as lifestyle.

Jake Barnes, Hemingway's narrator with a mysterious war wound that has left him sexually incapable, is the heart and soul of the book. Brett, the beautiful, doomed English woman he adores, provides the glamour of natural chic and sexual unattainability. Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta. Brett, with fiancé and ex-lover Cohn in tow, breaks hearts all around until she falls, briefly, for the handsome teenage bullfighter Pedro Romero. "My God! he's a lovely boy," she tells Jake. "And how I would love to see him get into those clothes. He must use a shoe-horn." Whereupon the party disbands.
But what's most shocking about the book is its lean, adjective-free style. The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's masterpiece--one of them, anyway--and no matter how many times you've read it or how you feel about the manners and morals of the characters, you won't be able to resist its spell. This is a classic that really does live up to its reputation.
source: Amazon

HOME-SPIRATION - BOOK SHELVES

WHAT AM I READING NOW?

I haven't really been reading much lately. Just kind of been more into crafting lately I guess. I do got some new (old novels) coming from eBay (yeah eBay is my friend) so I will probably be reading more now. I found a sight about the best novels or novels you should read before you die or something like that so I got a bunch of books coming. Can you say HELLO WINTER READING?

I picked this book up at the grocery store. It just caught my attention & my mood.

Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser. I'm only about 4 chapters in, but I find her very intriguing.