Books I read:
- When Women were Dragons, by Kelly Barnhill, fiction, finished July 9, 2022, my review
- Field Guide to the Haunted Forest, by Jarod K. Anderson, poetry, finished July 16, 2022
- Upstream, by Mary Oliver, selected essays, finished July 22, 2022
- Sooley, John Grisham, fiction, finished July 29, 2022
- The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, translated by Thomas Merton, Shambhala Press, Boston, 2004, finished August 19, 2022
- Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Blair Braverman, HarperCollins Publisher Inc., New York, NY, 2016, memoir, finished August 26, 2022, my review
- Rooted, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, nonfiction, finished October 1, 2022, while there was no electricity after Tropical Storm Ian, some thoughts
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin, HarperCollins, fiction, finished December 18, 2022, rather appropriately, I think (nearing Sunreturn and the Fallows). Her afterward is almost better than the book itself, I think.
Current Personal Spiritual Canon Content/Explorations* (alphabetical):
- Bible (Christian)
- Bible (Hebrew)
- The Book of Certitude
- (The Tibetan) Book of the Dead
- Hidden Words
- Book of Mormon
- The Promulgation of Universal Peace
- Qur’an
- The Gathas of Zarathustra
*Some of these, I am more familiar with – others, this is my first time reading through them. I spend time with each of them on a recurring basis in the current year.