Yesterday,the brother 0f a big wind survivor told of how frightened she was, though the tornado left her untouched as it tore through her woods. Good grief! This is the third person I know who has weathered natural turbulence this year, never without after effects. What to do to re-establish equilibrium? Some turn to Yoga; others do not.
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Firmly believing that a good book makes any problem more tolerable, if not solvable, RB suggests the following:
RECOVERING OR PREPARING:
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
I’m currently checking out Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventures in Alaska by Rockwell Kent, as noted by Jamie Wyeth. (See last blog post.
NATURE’S LENS:
The Meadow by Thomas Galvin
Native Trees of Canada by Leanne Shapton
The Tree by John Fowles
The Outermost House by Henry Beston
Maybe Rockwell Kent’s Wilderness goes here.
The Good Rain by Timothy Egan is a possible.
GREAT GOOD NATURE:
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison
The Innocent Anthropologist:Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley
Maybe Kate Braestrup’s Here If You Need Me should be here.
LEARNING: Topics may vary, but learning more to understand the topic and to mellow unreasonableness does not.
From a keyword-in-title search of NEW BOOKS in the public library 43 years ago, I found Kinds of Love by May Sarton and Ways of Loving by Brendan Gill to be useful.
From a no-nonsense browse of a giant B. Dalton bookstore in snowy January 37 years ago, I found Selected Essays of Teilhard de Jardin, especially “Zest for Living.”
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TO BE CONTINUED, probably forever. Other suggestions, anyone?
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Lots of sun, little breeze, and RB’s most regular Regulars are here. All’s right with the world.
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