My Sixtieth Birthday, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts

Donna has been asking all summer to go on the Swan Boats; her church is at the top of Boston Common and the Public Garden is at the bottom, so after lunch we went for my Sixtieth Birthday. Donna is Sixty Two. She had to go into the Ritz Carlton for a minute, so I photographed one of its paintings. The hotel was built in 1927. The Swan Boats, or the Hydrocycle rather, was originally powered by the bicycle and pedalled across the water when introduced in the late nineteenth century.

photo: Scott Lord

Books in our library written by ministers who have preached here

I wasn't looking for these. They are from a college from where I went to nursery school up to highschool in South Hamilton, Mass.

The church is historic and there is a cabinet of books written by minsters who have preached here at Park Street. When I looked for digitalized out of print I suprisingly didn't find anything. We are adjacent to the former offices of Little and Brown and I collect first edition Little and Brown hardcovers and often find them digitalized. What I did find were the student Theological journals from Gordon Conwell Seminary and are reading through them today, particularly an essay on the Futurity of the Resurrection in the writing of Paul.

Donna’s new dress I like

Happy Birthday, Donna

My wife's sixty second birthday was today. Although we went out for lunch yesterday and were in today waiting for snow, we've been watching movies. The Lost Daughter, Bright Star, a superb biographical film about the poet John Keats and Blue Jay in this group of movies. We kept the same ballon as last month, rather than getting her a birthday balloon, mostly because it is still in the same spot.