Why the Empty Bookcase?

Some of you might be wondering; why did they call it The Empty Bookcase???

Well there are lots of reasons! :) 

#1-When we moved here we bought 2 bookcases and they were totally empty...it was our choice what we were going to put on them. Novels, histories, science, biographies, maps. We decided we wanted to fill these bookcases with classics! The books that the founding fathers read, the books that changed the world and mankind, the books that inspire the human soul to be something more than they are today! 

These are our empty bookcases.

Walter Mosley once said "A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him."

So, what do you you want people to know you by?

That leads us to reason #2-What and who are you molding yourself into? Who are you going to be?

Firbie at the moment is reading every Anita Stansfield's Romance she can get her hands on, and is convinced she now knows enough information from these books to be a psychologist!

Mom has been reading a lot on the first world war. (I'm a little jealous, because that's what i'm suppose to be reading)

On my bookcase I have a ton on the 21st century and every leadership classic I can get my hands on...sadly I think i'v only covered about 5 of them :P But at the moment i'm reading Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...I adore this play and laugh out loud about every other sentence! And also Education of a Wandering Man. Also a very good book.

Edna is reading A Little Princes, and who knows about Turtle! Shes in her room most of the time minding her own business. Last I herd she finished Edenbrook in a few days and absolutely loved it! (That is on my reading list along with about 400 others). She reads a lot more than I think anybody even realizes!

Dad is still reading Jesus the Christ (I think its been a year, but at least he is making progress!) and always somewhere in some kind of computer programming book.

Dallin H. Oaks said "Consider how we use our time in the choices we make in viewing television, playing video games, surfing the Internet, or reading books or magazines. Of course it is good to view wholesome entertainment or to obtain interesting information. But not everything of that sort is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. Some things are better, and others are best. When the Lord told us to seek learning, He said, 'Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom' (D&C 88:118).

What and who are you becoming? Because of even the littlest choices of what books you are reading change who you are.

And my favorite book quote by Classic writer himself Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

#3-I believe our minds are also bookcases in a way...every second of every day we are choosing what we will fill our bookcases with. Every day the things we watch, read, listen to, and do are making us into something and someone. Who are you going to be, and what are you going to do about it?

That's what this blog is all about! The things we post here are the things my family and I are filling our bookcases with. Sometimes its a new recipe, other days it's the last movie we watched, and if its Firbie posting you might get a little gimps at psychology ;)!!! When we are feeling really adventurous you might hear about our field trips that we try going on once a month. Other days it might just be a new quote i'm obsessed with... actually that will happen a lot ;) 

The question is what are you filling your bookcase with???

-Houston