April 15, 2013

Monday Book Nook: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

I didn’t intend to pull out another Barbara Kingsolver book so soon, but dreamer Debbie saw I had finished Flight Behavior and offered to do an […]
April 8, 2013

Monday Book Nook: The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel. To pause and greet the soul is a gift. It is also an inheritance.  So often the idea of observing […]
March 25, 2013

Monday Book Nook: The Torah

This Monday’s Book Nook: The Torah. Really, this should have been the original Book Nook submission. It gets pulled out pretty much every Shabbat. Think of […]
March 18, 2013

Monday Book Nook: Imagery and Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine by Jeanne Achterberg

For this Monday’s Book Nook it’s an “oldie but goodie” I pulled back off the shelf: Imagery and Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine, by Jeanne Achterberg. […]
March 11, 2013

Monday Book Nook: Reality by Peter Kingsley

Monday’s Book Nook recommend this week? Reality by Peter Kingsley. Kingsley has been one of my favorite finds of the year. I’ve devoured three of his […]
March 5, 2013

(Almost) Monday Book Nook: The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness by Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Good Morning! For this week’s Book Nook: The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness by Rabbi Rami Shapiro. An essential guide to finding the quiet moments of stillness […]
February 18, 2013

Monday Book Nook

Open a book and you can step into another world. Watch a documentary and you can step into someone else’s shoes. Stories have the ability to […]
December 3, 2012

Reversing – Individual and Communal

I have a book to recommend: The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan. It’s about the Dustbowl Era – the nightmare on top of the nightmare […]
October 29, 2011

The Decision Age

I just did a book exchange with my neighbor. I had just finished reading Collapse, by Jared Diamond and traded it for what he just finished […]