The Story of C. S, Lewis

C. S. Lewis:
The man behind Narnia and other Far-away places.

As a four year old boy, Clive Staples Lewis had a dog named Jacksie. Jacksie was killed by a car and shortly after his pet's death Clive announce that his new name was Jacksie (Whitch was shortened to Jack). This name is the name that his friends knew him as, but not only as 'Jack Lewis' but as a British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
Some of Jack's well known and loved books are The Space Trilogy, Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Some of these (One series in particular that I'm talking about) colorfully written books are considered 'Fiction' but some would debate that matter. The Chronicles of Narnia are an absolutely great example of truth behind Fiction. There are many things in Narnia that represent people, places and things in Lewis's life (and in our lives as well). One of those people in these books in Digory Kirke, a boy who in many ways, represents Lewis himself. In the book, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Magician's Nephew, Digory, being a boy who live in the time that Jack was a boy, had a mother who was very sick and was going to die. This is very much like Jack's own personal life.

C. S. Lewis was seven when his family moved into "Little Lea" this was the home in which Jack grew up and and it was in the Strandtown area of East Belfast Ireland. Jack and his brother Warrnie used to hide in a wardrobe and create their own world that they had named Boxen. Jack loved books and he felt that finding a book to read was as easy as walking in a field and "finding a new blade of grass." Jack's mother Florance Lewis died of cancer in 1908 shortly after her death Jack was sent to a boarding school where he would join his brother.
When Jack had turned 15 he abandoned Christianity and became an atheist, he was interested in mythology and was awed at legends and songs, he also grew to love nature.
Jack experienced trench warfare when he left his scholarship at Oxford and volunteered in the British Army in 1917. The next year on the 15th of April a English shell, falling short of its target wounded Lewis. When he recovered in October, he was assigned to duty in Andover, England and was discharged in December of 1918. Soon after he returned to his studies. Although when Jack first experienced England he disliked it horribly and thought that the accents and landscape were awful, but later in life he grew to like it. In 1930, Jack and his brother moved, along with Mrs. Moore and her daughter Maureen (Edward "Paddy" Moore had been on of Jack's fellow cadets and close friend in training for the army, but was killed in 1918, therefore, Jack and his brother took care of Paddy's mother and sister, the Moores). There four moved into "The Kilns" which was a house that all of them contributed financially to purchase on the outskirts of Oxford.
J. R. R. Tolkien played quite a big role in Jack's life, as well as being one of his good friends, and a fellow writer and part of the 'Inklings' club, Tolkien was a main part of getting Jack to come back to Christianity. Tolkien, being a Roman Catholic, hoped that Jack would become one as well but Jack chose to become a member of the Church of England.
Joy Gresham, (also know as Joy Davidman) a American writer who had a Jewish background, and also a convert from atheism and Christianity, became great friends with Jack. After Joy's visit to the UK, she and Jack were married and her and her two sons, David and Douglass, came to live with Jack. After complaining of a painful hip, Joy was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer. This was very sad news for Jack and his two step-sons, but Joy's cancer soon went into a brief remission, and the couple lived together with David, Douglas, and Warrnie Lewis as a family. Joy's cancer went into relapse and she died in 1960.
In early June of 1961, Jack was diagnosed with inflammation of the kidneys which caused blood poisoning. His health began improving throughout the next year, and in April, he returned to his post at Cambridge. Jack's health continued to improve and his friend, George Sayer, considered Jack to be back to himself again by spring in 1963. On the 15th of July 1963, Jack once more fell ill and was admitted into a hospital. 5:00 pm the next day, Jack suffered a heart attack and entered into a coma, and unexpectedly awoke 21 hours later. He was discharged from the hospital and returned to the Kilns, but he was too ill to return to work and resigned from Cambridge in August. His health continued to deteriorate and in mid-November, Jack was diagnosed with end stage renal failure.

November 22, 1963.
Media coverage was going crazy about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who had been fatally shot while riding in a Presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Needless to say, that day was one of the most chaotic then any other, Americans were devastated when they heard that their beloved President, JFK, was dead. However, something else happened that day that media seemed to push aside. At 5:30 pm the well-known and respected author scholar and academic, C. S. Lewis (or Jack as we've been brought to calling him) collapsed in his bedroom and died minutes later, this was exactly one week before his 65th birthday.

Jack was bitterly mourned for after his death, but his stories, poems, letters, legacy and faith live on.

August: The Month

Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday dear meeeeeeee.. Happy Birthday to me! ( and many more on Chanel Four and Scoby Doo on Chanel two and all the rest on PBS ) Well did you like my singing? It was my Birthday lets seeee today is the 19th so is WAS my birthday 12 days ago! Actually today is my brother's birthday and on Monday is my friend THC's ( Tottalyhorsecrazy.Blogspot.com ) birthday and THEN next week is my other friend Dbug's
( Doodlebug97.Blogspot.com ) birthday. So birthday party's all around!So what's new with you this August? I went to Tucson ( again ) a few weeks ago, or was is one week ago? I can't remember but I helped paint my aunt's new office while I was there.
This morning for the first time I got to ride Neon for the first time! I'm the 2nd person to ever ride him and the 1st person to ride him at a canter! ( for a few seconds ) That was really exciting, although, Neon is really hard to steer! Riding him is kinda like driving a car without much 'pull' or 'connection' to between the steering wheel and the tires. Of course you have to take into consideration that Neon is only around two and a half years old and doesn't quite get the picture of how to go not where he wants to go but where his rider wants him to go. But wow! trying to canter on him was really fun and I admit, maybe a little intimidating at first. Anyway, I wish a happy August to you ( especially if you have a birthday this month! )

Chatch ya later!
-A.lover

A hiking mistake

Ever gone on a hiking trail that you thought was going to turn out on a loop and be a nice, long hike that would be scatterd with Aspen trees and lots of diffrent wildflowers? But insted it turned out that you missed the trail-head because a car was parked in front of the sign and you went on a straighter, much shorter trail not expecting to find a sign telling you that the trail you thought you were on was really behind you? So then you go and hike back through the path that you came there on and took a lot shorter hike then you had expected, but the secery was great and the temperture was really really nice? Did it ever happen to you?
My guess is is that you already know that by the way that I just typed that I just experianced it. It was fun, even though we (My aunt Lynda, Kidder, my brother, and I) didn't make it to the right trail. By the way this was on Mt. Lemon whitch is a really big mountain in Tucson. I've been here in Tucson for lets see... 6 day so far, and we are going back home tommorow. It's been fun but I am ready to see Arlo soon agin. Well, thats the very basic info of our hike that we did today!

-A.lover

Lots of stuff going on

Hi! I guess it's time to start typing agin huh? So lets see last time I wrote a post I had just got back from California. The reason why we were there was because my dad and brother went on a biology trip to Catalina Island for My brother's homeschool co-op class. But that was a little while ago so now I can tell you what's more recent! First of all pretty much my whole family got sick with what we think was food poisening which really stinks but I got over it fairly quickly. The after that I got stung by a bee at what? 8:30PM and we wern't shure if I was allergic or not becuase I might have been showing signs of it so I had to go to the emergancey room for just one measly bee sting. Then, geuss what? I got sick with strep throut! So those were all the set bakcs but don't get me wrong, I've got to do some fun things lately! for example: I GOT TO GO CAMPING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I WAS ABOUT THREE! That was fun! Even though we only got to stay one night (due to the strep throut) it was fun. We got to go with our friends to a campsite up near a Lake called Big Lake I know, very unique name huh? So yeah that was fun. Oh! some other thing that I'm really exsited about are VBS and my birthday and the fact that we are building a fire pit in our backyard! Just think, roasting marshmellows one minute and swimming in the pool the next! that should be really fun especially when I have discovered the secret to the perfect way of making a s'more!! Here is the not very safe trick: before putting the marshmellow on the sqewer you stick the sqewer into the blazing hot coals untill the sqewer's point is either red-hot or turning rainbowish colors! After that CARFULLY poke the marshmellow onto the BURNING hot sqewer and then toast over the hot coals (but not too close) untill the whole marshmellow is yellowish and a little brown. It's really quite good because the inside of the marshmellow is a little toasty too! Oh yeah! Here is a cool thing that happend when we went camping, me THC and my dad went for a walk\hike to explore around the campsite and when we did we discoverd one of the most beautifull spots of outdoors I've seen in person. THC and I called it the vally of the two forests. When you get through the one wood you come quite suddenly to a big strech of open land the goes on as far as you can see in both directions and on the other side of this open land is a big wall of Aspen trees and pine tress which make it look really REALLY cool. I'm saving that picture of what I saw there in my head as much as I can.
One last thing before I go! As I said VBS is coming up (Which you can read about in other posts of mine) In fact, It starts on monday which is only two days away! Yipppyyy!

-A.lover

Hi there

Hello! As you may have guessed I'm back from California and I've been back for a long time! I've got to admit I've been putting off writing post for a long time so I guess I'll just have to do it now huh? Well at least I have lots to write about. Lets seeeeee, Got back from California, had a fun time there but got sick a little bit. Oh! It was kinda weird because when we were staying at my aunt's house there in Orange county her dogs got sprayed by a skunk! I guess there are a lot of skunks in that area so bewere! Another thing that I got to do in California is go to a frozen yougurt place where you have choices of yougurt to choose from and you can mix however many types of diffrent yougurt you want and then put whatever toppings that you want on it and you pay for it by how much it ways. I like those kind of places because then I can get really weird combonations of frozen yougurt! Here, these are the ones that I have done, have fun trying them somtime!

COCO-BERRY-CHEESECAKE Yougurt
What to mix:

New York Cheesecake,
Chocolate,
Pomograntate Blueberry

What to top it with:

Strawberries,
Blackberries,
Granola,
Carmel Sauce

Note: This purple-brown delightfulness is really good! Especially as the carmel sauce gives off that sweet carmel flavore!


OATMEAL-STRAWBERRY-KIWI-COOKIE Yougurt

What to mix:

Oatmeal Cookie,
Strawberry,
Origanal Tart

What to top it with:

Kiwi,
Grahm Craker Crumbles,
Carmel Sauce,
Chocolate Sauce

Note: This frozen sweet+tart concoction will satisfy your tastbuds, and with the choclate-carmel accent, it will leave you wanting more!

Hope you get to tast these weird mixes!
-A.lover

PS: Did you check out the picture at the very bottom?
-A.lover

PSS: I plan to write more later okay?
-A.lover

PSSS: Happy Fourth of July!
-A.lover

Bon Voyage!

Hey there! Check it out! it's JUNE!!! Ya know what that means? In short it means: Summer, Swimming, Baseball games (blah), Seeing friends more often, Family over, VACATIONS, My birthday, Birthdays of people that I know, Church stuff, VBS, and ummmm that's all I can think of so far! But not all of that will be happening in June, In fact, we are going on a Vacation to Disney World in late September after the school year starts! Anyway let me tell you the crazy things happening around here!

Okay, so first school is out!! Yippee! When ever I say that the song that goes 'Schools OUT for the summer!' starts playing in my head! Anyway, school is out and on Wednesday my uncle came to our house on the way to his cabin up in Alaska. While he was still here some of my cousins and grandparents came up to see the D-Backs play against the Rockies at Bank One Ballpark. (currently named Chase Field, I just call it Bank one anyway) See, the D-Backs have been playing horrible this season and so they called up our church and asked them if they would like a BIG bunch of free tickets! I'm not kidding! the seats weren't even the cheapest seats either! The funny thing is is that we were already planning on going to the game that our church got free tickets for! So then my parents let me and my brother invite one friend over to spend the night after the ball game. We had a full house! So the next day which was Saturday my cousins and my brother and my friend all went swimming for almost four hours I think! then after that my grandparents and cousins went back to Tucson and my friend and I watched one of the Chronicles of Narnia movies (She's a really big fan too). Then my friend's parents picked her up and took her home and we were all EXTREMELY tired. The next day which was Sunday, we went to church and my uncle (who was still over) went with us. Actually, to be exactly accurate we went to Sunday school and then had to take my uncle to the airport to fly to Alaska. Now as you see the story of last week is coming to an end because it's already yesterday, but the story of tomorrow is about to be told!!

Have you ever heard the song 'Lets pack up and move to California!' well that's what I'm gonna do! well kind of, I'm not moving to California I'm just visiting because my dad and brother and going to Catalina Island for my brother's Biology class! My and my mom decided to go and visit my Aunt (Aka. K9lovr) who lives near Catalina. We are going to try to leave in about eleven or twelve hours and then coming back on Sunday. Now do you understand the title? Oh, and other summer things will include Youth camp for my brother, VBS in July and most likely a lot more! I'll write about that when that stuff comes up Okay?

To California and beyond!!
-A.lover

WHOA, OOPS!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! Wait a minute! HOW IN THE WORLD DID I MISS THAT?!?!? I can't belive I didn't realize that my last post which was just a picture of something was my 50th post!! I've been waiting for a looooong time now to have a 50th aniversery party! But it came and went just like that! Well my bad I guess. Heyyyy I have an idea! instead of waiting for my 100th post how 'bout I have a fity-first post party!! Well then, that settles it: Lets celebrate! So if you want you could look back fifty posts and remember what was going on with your life when you read those! Hey, thats a good way to time travel. Oh, by the way, I have these really cool Photos that I got of of the Internet to put on my desktop, wanna see em?



















Which ones do you like?
-A.lover