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Author, CJS Hayward!
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Years back, one friend, Cynthia, explained why she will never own a furry
pet. An editor, her work often allows her to be in her apartment building
during business hours, and when she walks through the halls, she hears so many
whimperings, whinings, barks, and the like, every one of them saying, "Will
you come in and be with me?"
Orthodox Books and More: This collection
includes Eastern Orthodox Christian theology, and literature.
It is by far the largest section of this website, and possibly the most
interesting.
Books & eBooks: All the
best works from this site are available in books and eBooks. And really,
this is the kind of writing that works more nicely from a paperback or
Kindle than the charming, romantic light of a fluorescent computer
screen.
As over a decade has gone by, Orthodox Books and
More has grown to be much more than one section of the website among
others. It has several sections of its own, and it
has become the crowning jewel of the site, with a great many of its author's
favorite works.
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A tale of two watches...
This article began as an explanation of why I wear two watches. But it ended
up being more.
The first watch is a Casio Men's
PRW-2500T-7CR Pro Trek Tough Solar Digital Sport Watch: it's not the most
expensive Casio Pathfinder-based watch (the G-Shock MT-G MTGS1000V-1A retails for more than three times as much, but
as I best remember its classy look is tied to some disadvantages such as not
having proper light for any serious nighttime usage), but it's the top of a
lower line.
This lower line looks about as classy as any watch I've had, and it is very
much a Swiss Army Knife worn on the wrist. It tells the time, but tells the
time based on atomic clocks, charges its own battery on scant sunlight,
includes a compass, reading for the tides, barometer, moon phase, and a few
things more, and appears to be built
in such a way that it might outlast its wearer. And I would mention one Art
of Manliness article on using a barometer that turned up in a search
mentioned that it took some effort to find a barometer at all. And this watch,
not this specific model necessarily, represents the last hurrah of an old
guard. "In with the new and out with the old": this kind of watch may have a
niche (it is ubiquitous among boaters), but if you're going after the best
watch money can buy, this kind of thing is no defending champion, and even
analogue watches like the G-Shock mentioned
earlier, which admittedly look nicer than my digital display, is the wave
of the past.
This site represents a collection of thousands of pages over decades, and
they have been on the web almost from the beginning. But however much they may
be available on the web, they were meant to be curled up with.
There are many books drawn from this website, both in paperback
and Kindle.
Let's pick one example you might consider reading:
This book offers an eclectic colection of Orthodox theology with emphasis on an Orthodox faith that has much experience in hard times and cards dealt off the bottom of the deck.
It is one of this site's best sellers and well worth reading.
