HI THERE! I'M BRIANNE TURCZYNSKI, FREELANCE WRITER, HISTORICAL RESEARCHER, & PERPETUAL SEEKER OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. WELCOME TO MY SPACE WHERE I SHARE THE BOOKS I'M READING, MY SPIRITUAL FINDINGS, FLOWERS IN MY GARDEN, AND LOST STORIES. ALL ARE WELCOME HERE.
Let your conversation be always full of grace, 'seasoned with salt', so that you may know how to answer everyone." -Colossians 4:6 'Salt' is one of the most significant words in the whole Bible. We usually hear it in reference to God’s people – ‘salt of the earth’. Because of salt’s preservative nature, Christians, generation … Continue reading Paul’s Letter to the Colossians
A Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale is a story about a man accused of treason as accomplice to Aaron Burr. In the courtroom he announces that he wishes to never hear of the United States again. The judge grants him his wish, and he is sentenced to spend the rest of his … Continue reading The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
It’s nice that I can use my old college history paper for current book research! Who knew I’d ever have to use this!? Go twenty-something me! 🎉 . . . Modernism: changes initiated by youth culture in (omit ‘the’😳) twentieth century America. The Acadians: From the British colonies to Louisiana. . . . #termpapers #thesis … Continue reading When you can use old college term papers for current book research! 🎉
"The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. I suppose the whole of life is like that: the endless complications, the endless difficulties, the endless fight against one thing or another, whether it be green-fly on the roses or the complexity of human … Continue reading Taking a look at a very old post about Chattanooga.
*I have no authority to teach you lessons from the Bible, I only hope you will find something useful. You might disagree with my interpretation and that’s OK! . . “When you cross the Jordan in to Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their … Continue reading The Book of Numbers
Lower than Angels by Walter Karig. Finished this book late last night and so promptly took these pictures while in bed. I couldn’t put this coming of age story down. Walter Karig displays the life of Marvin Lang at the turn of the last century. Every chapter is a different year of his life starting … Continue reading Lower Than Angels by Walter Karig
Finished this over the weekend. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to entrench themselves in faith reading. At times it was frightening, especially when she talks about seeing visions of the devil. Those were times I wanted to put it down, because that does scare me, and I don’t even believe in such … Continue reading St. Teresa de Avila by Herself
For The Bride: A scrapbook for brides from 1920’s. My mother gave me this as a sort of joke on my anniversary one year along with a book called, The Silent Hostess, also another inside joke. . . . My husband and I were married 14 years ago today. I was 22 years old. It … Continue reading For the Bride: Today is our Wedding Anniversary
Spent yesterday going through the archives in the Detroit Public Library’s Burton Historical Collection. What a beautiful library! It’s what I would like my personal library to look like, and what it’ll have to look like if I keep buying books! 😂 The interior is so vintage—late 1950’s, early 1960’s I’m guessing. 🥰 . . … Continue reading Inside the Detroit Public Library
Again, I have no authority to teach you anything from the Bible, I hope you might find something useful from it, and if you disagree with my interpretation that’s OK! “...the gospel I preach is not of human origin.” —Galatians 1:11 I was given the order in which to read the Bible my a priest … Continue reading The book of Galatians
BRIANNE TURCZYNSKI 