Andrew Carnegie from Scotland was the man who started libraries. Libraries sure caught on. I don’t know what I would have done without public libraries and the books I could take out so easily. Books are my companions, and some have stayed in my heart from childhood on. I cannot imagine a life without books and easy accessibility to books. (more…)

 My daughter mentioned that Martha Stewart’s daughter wrote a book that was depreciating of Martha Stewart. I remember that Joan Crawford’s daughter wrote a terrible tale about her mother. None of our mothers are perfect, yet to publish a diatribe against your mother? To publish a book that probably wouldn’t be published if the daughter were not the daughter of the famous person? This feels like infamy to me. (more…)

Just before Heaven Admin invited me to South Africa, I had finished reading a book that takes place in Africa.  In Kenya. The name of the book is Nowhere in Africa by Stephanie Zweig. It is an autobiographical novel. It was also made into a movie.

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It is a difficulty, isn’t it, getting rid of ego. It keeps cropping up.

Without ego, anyone’s ego, what would life be? It would be a relief. We could breathe deeply.

I just read an article in Transcendence e-zine. Transcendence is published once a month on the full moon, and, God bless them, they highlight Heavenletters™ so beautifully.

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For me, the Great Escape is reading books. The best reading, of course, is a great novel, or a biography or other non-fiction that grips me, yet even a suspenseful spy or detective or legal thriller will do.

I ask myself what is it exactly that I have to escape? I have no answer to that. It’s just I have to get away every once in a while. (more…)

The Divine and the human are such a contradiction — I seem to be incapable of reconciling them.

When I read over a Heavenletter or see a quote from Heavenletters™ somewhere, I am so impressed with the simplicity, wisdom, and love that falls off the page right into my heart.

The biggest wonder is that somehow, by some quirk of fate — or is it faith? — (more…)

Kathryn Stockett is the author of The Help. I read The Help a while ago. I did mention the book  in a blog. I had to return the book to the library before I had made the time to write a real review.

My friend Tracey Bennett in Hawaii (more…)

What an author, Azar Nifisi! And what a book she wrote, Reading Lolita in Tehran. (more…)

The author pictured above who influenced Bernie tremendously is William Saroyan.

The book that influenced Bernie more than any other book is (more…)

There is an earlier blog about Chellie and all she gained from a book that had a great influence on her. That blog entry is called The Big Confrontation. The book that Chellie learned from is When I Say No, I Feel Guilty by Manuel Smith.  http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/the-big-confrontation-assertiveness.htm

Chellie’s second mighty insight and experience about speaking up for herself (more…)