[via Esther]

Today is St. Patrick's Day and in honor of the British-Saint-who-moved-to-Ireland and for whom we celebrate Ireland every year, I thought I'd share just a few of my favorite Irish artists.

There are so many that I love (Kenneth Branaugh, George Bernard Shaw, Liam Neeson, Enya, and Peter O'Toole) even more whom I respect (Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Harris, Michael Gambon, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, etc.) But there are just a few that I admire I thought worth it to share. So, in no particular order, here they are:

Andrew Scott

Oscar Wilde

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis

Maureen O'hara

Paul Hewson, a.k.a Bono

Summer Reading List :)

Summer is finally here and I have worked up an exciting reading list. Some are first-timers, others i've just never finished, and a few are just so good that i need to read them again :)

Here are Just a Few:

At the Back of the North Wind by George McDonald

The Perelandra Series - Clive Staples

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - Samuel Clemens

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Emma - Jane Austen..... getting soooo close to conquering Jane Austen!

Shakespeare (several different plays)

Shame off You - Alan D. Wright

Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning

Surprised By Hope - N. T. Wright

The Diary of Anne Frank 

Enemies Within - Pastor Norm Willis

The Circle Trilogy - Ted Dekker:)

yippeeeeee

Dedication to The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

"My Dear Lucy,

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still beyour affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis"

I love this quote... someday we will all be old enough to start reading fairy tales again...