Each week (give or take one or two here and there) I share three things I like – It could be a book, a movie, a podcast, an album, a photo, an article, a restaurant, a food item, a beverage, or anything else I simply enjoy and think you might too. You can find a whole pile of things, especially books, I like and recommend HERE.
1. “Jump To Recipe”
Netflix shows offer the opportunity to “Skip Recap” or “Skip Intro” and that is a handy feature (especially if one is binge watching). But far surpassing these in helpfulness, yea in necessity for human sanity, is the “Jump to Recipe” button at the top of nearly all internet recipe pages. While it is lovely that that Susan got this recipe from a yellowed page torn from her grandmother’s diary, and her grandmother was a one-legged bootlegger in the hills of North Carolina who had sixteen children, eleven of whom moved to New Jersey, a state which is surprisingly beautiful despite it’s reputation, a reputation gained by being adjacent to New York, a city which has an incredible culinary array, speaking of which Susan went took an excellent culinary training course at the local community center. . . you get my point. We came for the slow cooker chicken recipe because we won’t have time to cook when we get home from work, so we really don’t have time or patience to read 3,300 stream of consciousness words riddled with excessive adjective and adverb use. All this to say, if a recipe lacks this essential button my family will never taste it.
2. The Quotable Lewis edited by Wayne Martindale & Jerry Root
I love C.S. Lewis. Like most people I was introduced to his work through the Chronicles of Narnia, but it was in college when I began to fall in love with his non-fiction works. That happened largely because of the two men who compiled and edited this wonderful volume, Wayne Martindale and Jerry Root. Both were professors of mine at Wheaton College, and frankly I remember very little of the material they taught (largely because of my own intellectual indigence). But I will never forget the kind of men they were as they taught: warm, vibrant, passionate, brilliant. They exuded so much love for the work of Lewis–and the other material they taught–that I developed a vicarious sort of friendship with him. They were men worth emulating and learning from, and they drew on the wisdom of Lewis, the warmth of Lewis, the worship Lewis expressed for God, and the mind of Lewis. The Quotable Lewis is simply a wonderful concentration of collected sayings and writings full of that wisdom, intellect, worship, and warmth. It is one I open often to sparkl my mind and heart.
3. Jiminy Glick
Martin Short is a comedic genius, and Jiminy Glick is maybe his most underrated character/bit. I will say nothing more because humor ceases to be funny when it is described. Just buckle up and enjoy.
