Advent Picture a Day ~ Day 17 ~ Vision
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..: The Big Sick
..: Lion
..: La La Land
..: Hidden Figures
..: Fences
..: Moonlight
..: Hail, Caesar
..: Bridge of Spies
..: Creed
..: Spotlight
..: The Big Short
~~~ 2015..: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
..: Little Hope Was Arson (PBS)
..: Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' (PBS)
:.. 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
~~~~ July - December 2016
:.. Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul- Andrew Schulman
:.. Alexander Hamilton- Ron Chernow
:.. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis- J. D. Vance
:.. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics- Carlo Rovelli
:.. The Last Days of Night- Graham Moore
:.. Here I Am- Jonathan Safran Foer
:.. The Underground Railroad- by Colson Whitehead
:.. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain- Bill Bryson
:.. Death's End- Cixin Liu
:.. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance- Angela Duckworth
:.. Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven- John Eliot Gardiner
:.. The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed- Carl Honore
:.. The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible- Matti Friedman
:.. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise- Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool :.. The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe- Stephon Alexander
:.. Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation- Edward Humes
:.. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman- James Gleick
~~~~ January - June 2016 :.. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War- Mary Roach
:.. The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New- Annie Dillard
:.. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen- Mary Norris
:.. How to Make Coffee: The Science Behind the Bean- Lani Kingston
:.. Write. Publish. Repeat.- Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant
:.. The Sympathizer- Viet Thanh Nguyen
:.. The Dark Forest- Cixin Liu
:.. Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul- James McBride
:.. When Breath Becomes Air- Paul Kalanithi
:.. Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll- Peter Guralnick
:.. The Art of Memoir- Mary Karr
:.. The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics- Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
:.. The Three-Body Problem- Cixin Liu
:.. Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge- Antony Beevor
:.. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character- Richard P. Feynman
:.. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015- Rebecca Skloot
:.. Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story- David Maraniss :.. Empire of Cotton: A Global History- Sven Beckert
:.. Not My Father's Son: A Memoir- Alan Cumming
:.. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir- Carly Simon
:.. The Verdict- Nick Stone
:..Words Without Music: A Memoir- Philip Glass
:.. Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout- Philip Connors
:.. Calculating God- Robert J. Sawyer
:.. Why Sinatra Matters- Pete Hamill
Ramblings of a Boomer Pilgrim in a Post-Modern World.
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~~~ 2017 Watchword
You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love.
--Nehemiah 9:17
--Nehemiah 9:17
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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
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