How to Celebrate D.E.A.R. Day? 📖👀💭🦁

Every April 12th

"D.E.A.R. Day stands for “Drop Everything and Read.” It’s a playful invitation to pause the rush of a normal day and give reading the starring role."

From 'C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life'

I just finished reading C.S. Lewis' book 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', which I found in an Op Shop, and another book full of parts of his writings and some of his quotes called 'C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life', which I bought a few years back from a religious bookshop.

And just a few weeks before that I finished reading the WM. Paul Young book 'Cross Roads', which I wrote about buying in 2023 -

At the Cross Roads of William P. Young's Work?🚦👼

From 'Cross Roads' by W.M Paul Young

WM. Paul Young is a big fan of C.S. Lewis' it seems.

From 'Cross Roads' by W.M Paul Young

None of the books I found a great read, especially 'C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life', and both I'll be passing on to a street library soon, as I already have with 'Cross Roads', but I was glad that I finally read Lewis' most famous book in the 'The Chronicles of Narnia' books, to see what all the fuss was about, as far as pop culture goes.

I think what most impressed me about Lewis was his references to Carl Jung in 'C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life'.

From 'C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life'

I'm not really into religious bookstores and the books they sell, but sometimes I drop into them and have a coffee and a meal at their cafe and then have a look to see if anything looks interesting to me in the book section.

The food and coffee are really good, but the books ... meh.

The gift section is OK.

I bought this "HOPE" tulip because I read about the tulip metaphor in the 'Cross Roads' book, which I was reading at the time, but the author never really came back to explaining it better in the rest of the book.

The Metamorphosis from Out of the Blue?🦋🌎🌞

And while some books I did find intriguing and nearly forked out the cash to read, as to just what some people or "Christians" find the "truth" to be in these deceptive times, I only bought a book about dreaming on my last visit, but 'Living in the Daze of Deception' is on my wish list now, even if only for laughs:-)

But I guess the book to D.E.A.R. today for me is the dream book I bought on my last visit.

Hey, even the bad books have changed my life, so I'm hoping that I bought a good one this time;-)

20th Century Mysticism and the G Word?👼⛪👻

The Last Book I Read Changed My Life and So Has Every Other Book I Have Read

From 'Cross Roads' by W.M Paul Young

I Can See Clearly Now That Life is a Journey, Not a Destination?

UPDATE: April 13th, 2026

Second full week of April
(Sunday-Saturday)

'Hate Week' started yesterday and I watched the above movie on the Doco channel through Amazon Prime, which was rather amusing to see Jeff Bezos the former president and CEO of Amazon called out in that movie.

Sydney Opera House sails light up
 to mark 50 Years of Apple

Apple Turns 50 on April Fool's Day, 2026?💻🍎🎂📱🃏