Anita Lewis

Life Update-2026-08-10

Published on: by Anita

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Current status:

  • I think it would be really helpful if I did these updates more often. Maybe 2 months instead of 4. Maybe take notes?
  • The experiment with Bash scripting was fun and showed me that I really don’t want to spend more time learning it. I am continuing to use Vim, though. That is now my default CLI text editor. Learning the vi Editor 4th Edition by Linda Lamb was a great help. I used that edition because I got it for free. As I began reading the book I stopped and first watched “Vim Tutorial for Beginners”. Then I went back to the book and could breeze through the first part of it.
  • I made a page on the programs I use. Musikcube, Vim, Newsboat, and Ranger are my newest ones.
  • I ate way too much salmon for a few years. I think there were side-effects. I’ll write about that eventually.

Reading:

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Read:

  • Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg: Beautiful story. Tender and humorous too
  • Entropy (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron
  • Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality by Richard Rohr
  • The Kingdom Within: The Inner Meanings of Jesus’ Sayings by John A. Sanford
  • Come Calling by D.L. Keur
  • Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto by Benedicta Ward
  • The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
  • Hot Chocolate on Thursday by Michiko Aoyama
  • You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong by Trisha Pasricha
  • The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
  • Zero Tolerance by D.L. Keur
  • The Gospel of Mary of Magdala by Karen L. King
  • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Learning the vi Editor 4th Edition by Linda Lamb
  • Human Energy by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Currently Reading:

  • Rabi’a the Mystic and Her Fellow-Saints in Islam by Margaret Smith. Reading this with the Depth & Mysticisim Study Group.
  • Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of Mark by Marcus J. Borg
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Writings edited by Ursula King
  • Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
  • Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels

Podcasts:

  • Three new podcasts on the Podcast page:
    • “Paper Trail” from ProPublica: Great investigative reporting stories. These folks seem to want to dig for the truth that helps people.
    • “When We All Get to Heaven”: A 10-part series on the Gay church in San Francisco during the AIDS crisis.
    • “Hunger for Wholeness”: My interest in Teilhard de Chardin got me into this one. Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister, hosts it. The last one I listened to was with an astronomer. Delio started her career life as a scientist and she has not lost that interest. She’s a big fan of Teilhard de Chardin.

Music: