Brooklyn and a whole lot of tears
I honestly can’t remember why I picked Brooklyn up off the shelf. I was home with my family for the holidays, reeling in the emotional confusion of being in a relationship that, at that particular time, wasn’t serving me and not knowing what to do about it …
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Quantum Speak and a major shift in focus
It started with a cry for help.
30 minutes after pulling the plug on my recent relationship and 25 minutes after a small panic attack, I re-joined (after too much time away) a mindfulness, meditation and mindset training group called …
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Anything is Possible and some unexpected truth
It was an especially bleary day in London. A carpet of dense, grey mist so thoroughly coated the world that it made me wonder just how big a single cloud can be. Regardless, I’d had a joyful workday teaching little Chinese kids how to say “I eat bacon for breakfast!” and now …
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Emotional Currency and shedding light on the shadows
Boy, did I NOT want to read this book.
Don’t get me wrong – it is fascinating and insightful and an important read for all women. But getting myself to actually read it? Dig in and DO the work? I was a stubborn child spitting out corn all over my highchair again…
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The Great Naturalists and making discoveries
If my time in London could be characterized by one thing it would be this: not finding what I went looking for and finding something else instead. I came here to go to school; my professors go on strike. So, I start taking …
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Writings from the Zen Masters and going in circles
I picked up this little book because of its cover. The vivid image of a black ink circle on its stark, white cover – no title, no author – just seemed important somehow.
Circles, as a symbol, represent …
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ee cummings selected poems and slowing down
Reading ee cummings’ poetry cover-to-cover has the overall effect of turning your brain into soup. The words twist and dance and slip into crevices where you don’t expect them to fit. And just when you think you’ve truly lost your mind …
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Wabi-Sabi and time traveling
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers seems to be the definitive text helping Westerners understand this ancient Japanese art, philosophy, and aesthetic. I dropped it into my Amazon shopping cart at the last minute, hoping it would give me ideas …
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Women Who Run With The Wolves and realizing the power of dreams
Many months ago, never mind how long precisely, I had a powerfully resonant dream. I was camping in a converted van on a Native American reservation on the edge of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Parked on a clear outcropping of wild land that overlooked a small valley …
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The Feather Thief and recognizing the villain
I’m incredibly lucky to have acquired a stack of great books to escape into during this forced isolation. The Feather Thief, however, came to me without my choosing it or hunting it down; it just arrived on my doorstep one day…
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Love in the Time of Cholera and breaking spells
While Love in the Time of Cholera took me far too much time to get through, I have never more desperately wanted a book to end.
I turned the first tattered pages of this yellowing copy in London two months ago…
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Essentialism and taking back time
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
The Book that Murdered my Blog
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The Starless Sea and climbing out of a rut
There are some states that only something magical can scoop you out of. For the miserable reading rut I’d melted unceremoniously into, The Starless Sea was exactly this kind of necessary magic…
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home body and being enough
I come from a family of do-ers. I also come from a long line of women with strong minds and even stronger hearts who are self-reliant and take on big things that sometimes …
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