A 50-Year Memory: A Star Begins His Career
October 29 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
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At Sunrise
..: Call Me By Your Name
..: The Post
..: I'm Not Your Negro (PBS)
..: Lady Bird
..: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
..: Darkest Hour
..: The Disaster Artist
~~~ 2017..: The Shack (DVD)
..: Eight Days a Week (PBS)
..: Chasing Trane (PBS)
..: The Big Sick
..: Lion
..: La La Land
..: Hidden Figures
..: Fences
..: Moonlight
..: Hail, Caesar
..: Bridge of Spies
..: Creed
..: Spotlight
..: The Big Short
:.. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries- Kory Stamper
:.. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)- Ada Palmer
:.. The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry - Barry Green
:.. White Tears- Hari Kunzru
:..No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters - Ursula K. LeGuin
:.. Underground Airlines- Ben H. Winters
:.. The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
:.. The Immortalists- Chloe Benjamin
:.. Henry David Thoreau: A Life - Laura Dassow Walls
:.. Pachinko- Min Jin Lee
:.. The Tigers of Bastogne: Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge - Michael Collins and Martin King
:.. God: A Human History- Reza Aslan
:.. Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital - David Oshinsky
:.. The River of Consciousness- Oliver Sacks
:.. In the Midst of Winter- Isabel Allende
:.. Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within- Kenny Werner
:.. Sing, Unburied, Sing- Jesmyn Ward
:.. Leonardo da Vinci- Walter Isaacson
:.. Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler- Bruce Henderson
:.. Future Home of the Living God- Louise Erdrich
:.. American War- Omar El Akkad
~~~~ June - December 2017
:.. The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation- Richard Rohr, Mike Morrell
:.. Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master: the Essential Writings- Lawrence Cunningham, Thomas Merton
:.. Falling Upward- Richard Rohr
:.. Another Country- James Baldwin :.. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life- Mark Manson
:.. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes- Adam Rutherford
:.. La Rose- Louise Erdrich
:.. Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever- Kevin Cook
:.. Paris in the Present Tense- Mark Helprin
:.. The Moth- Catherine Burns (Editor)
:.. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable- Amitav Ghosh
:.. The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Series #3)- N. K. Jemisin
:.. Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad- Jacqueline L. Tobin, Raymond G. Dobard
:.. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life- William Finnegan
:.. The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth Series #2)- N. K. Jemisin
:.. When the English Fall- David Williams
:.. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit- Michael Finkel
:.. The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Series #1)- N. K. Jemisin
:.. The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
:.. Spoonbenders- Daryl Gregory
:.. Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently- Beau Lotto
:.. Exit West- Mohsin Hamid
:.. The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo- Ian Stansel
:.. The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers- Michael Leahy
:.. International Express: New Yorkers on the 7 Train- Stephane Tonnelat, William Kornblum
~~~~ January - June 2017
:.. Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play- Dominic Dromgoole
:.. A Life in Parts- Bryan Cranston
:.. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age- Daniel Levitin
:.. Havana: A Subtropical Delirium- Mark Kurlansky
:.. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball- Keith Law
:.. The Best American Sports Writing 2016- Rick Telander, Glenn Stout (Editor)
:.. Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling- Jeff Porter
:.. Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion- Jason C. Bivins
:.. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606- James Shapiro
:.. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow- Yuval Noah Harari
:.. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea- Jack E. Davis
:.. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City- Matthew Desmond :.. The Grace of Kings- Ken Liu
:.. All the Birds in the Sky- Charlie Jane Anders
:.. Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta- Richard Grant :.. Norse Mythology- Neil Gaiman :.. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016- Amy Stewart, Tim Folger :.. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet- Becky Chambers
:.. Moonglow- Michael Chabon
:.. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy- Eric Metaxas
:.. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity- Carlo Rovelli
:.. Lincoln in the Bardo- George Saunders
:.. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time- Maria Konnikova
:.. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction- Neil Gaiman
:.. The Water Knife- Paolo Bacigalupi
:.. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
:.. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World- Peter Wohlleben, Tim Flannery
Ramblings of a Boomer Pilgrim in a Post-Modern World.
~~~ Feature Picture
At Sunrise
~~~ 2018 Watchword
In [God's] hand is the life of every living thing.
--Job 12:10a
--Job 12:10a
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~~~about me
- pmPilgrim
- Counselor, writer, retired pastor, amateur musician, generally all-around fun guy. Avid amateur photographer for decades. Married with a grown child.
Some want to live
within the sound
of church or chapel bell;
I want to run
a rescue shop
within a yard of hell.
-- C. T. Studd
within the sound
of church or chapel bell;
I want to run
a rescue shop
within a yard of hell.
-- C. T. Studd
~~~ Disclaimer
Nothing said here should be understood or construed to be the opinion of anyone but me. My friends, my employer, any organizations I belong to, my church- all are innocent of these thoughts. They are mine.
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~~~ movies
~~~ 2016..: Smashed
..: Miles Ahead
..: The Lady in the Van
..: Room
..: Brooklyn
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