Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Reflections on 2022

 


January

Act justly. Love grace. Walk in purity with our God.


February

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said,

“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,    as in obeying the voice of the Lord?Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,    and to listen than the fat of rams.


March

"The tendency is to assume that everyone shares your world view." - Gary Kasparov


April

Haggai 1:3-5

Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,  “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.

2NE1 performed live at Coachella.


May

Christians are a habitation of the Holy Spirit. What does this mean and how does it apply in my life?


June

Days (Philip Larkin)

What are days for?

Days are where we live.   

They come, they wake us   

Time and time over.

They are to be happy in:   

Where can we live but days?


Ah, solving that question

Brings the priest and the doctor   

In their long coats

Running over the fields.


The trust that is given to me is a profound gift.


July

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse


August

My quality of life is enhanced by...

Literature

Music

Architecture

Appreciation of nature

Solitude

Rest

Reflection at the end of each day

A gratitude journal

Quality time with family and friends


September

I want to trust people recklessly.


October

Be kind.

Imitate Christ.

Do the right thing, not the easy thing.

Proverbs 17:27

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.


November

Lord, I am thankful for the joy of being immersed in something so enjoyable that I lose track of time.


December

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good;

and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

and to walk humbly with your God?



 


Sunday, January 1, 2023

Books read in 2022

 1. Colourful - Eto Mori

2. The Secret Lives of Planets - Paul Murdin

3. A  Mathematician's Apology - G.H. Hardy

4. The Cake Tree in the Ruins - Akiyuki Nosaka

5. My Annihilation - Fuminori Nakamura

6. The Waiting Years - Fumiko Enchi

7. Breasts & Eggs - Mieko Kawakami

8. Jerusalem - Selma Lagerlof

9. The Last Children of Tokyo - Yoko Tawada

10. Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri

11. American Primitive - Mary Oliver

12. A Poetry handbook - Mary Oliver

13. The End of Everything - Katie Mack

14. The Art of Statistics - David Spiegelhalter

15. Numbers Don't Lie - Vaclav Smil

16. Spring Garden - Tomoka Shibasaki

17. The Little House - Kyoko Nakajima

18. Where Reasons End - Li Yiyun

19. The Brain's Way of Healing - Norman Doidge

20. Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - Kyoko Nakajima

21. Twenty-four eyes - Sakae Tsuboi

22. unit.

23. Purple  Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

24. Dearly - Margaret Atwood

25. I would prefer not - Hermann Melville

26. Flights - Olga Tokarczuk

27. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

28. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carré

29. The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré

30. Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro

31. Voices in the Evening - Natalia Ginzburg

32. Idol Burning - Rin Usami

33. The Boy and the Dog - Seishu Hase

34. Cursed Bunmy - Bora Chung

35. The Age of Doubt - Pak Kyongni

36. Night on the Galactic Railroad & Other Stories from Ihatov - Kenji Miyazawa

37. Musings - Series One - George Yeo with Woon Tai Ho