books I’m reading lately


in progress


why fish don’t exist by lulu miller


Molly recommended this to me years ago and I’m glad I’m finally getting around to reading it


finished



the man who talks with the flowers by glenn clark


Elias gave this to me for my bday, it’s about George Washington Carver

This was really beautiful, talked about how spiritually powerful George Washington carver was, how he was as humble, as relaxed as the flowers


staying with the trouble by donna haraway


“How can we think in times of urgencies without the self-indulgent and self-fulfilling myths of apocalypse? When every fiber of our being is interlaced, even complicit, in the webs of processes that must somehow be engaged and repatterned? Recursively, whether we asked for it or not, the pattern is in our hands”


the spiritual dimensions of the enneagram by sandra maitri


I sincerely think this is the best thing about the enneagram I’ve ever read. It makes me want to dig deeper into earlier sources like Claudio Naranjo and even super early like Gurdjieff. I want to recommend it to everyone


writing down the bones by natalie goldberg


I use the writing practice she describes almost every day now


“Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs”


teaching a stone to talk by annie dillard


Most beautiful thing maybe ever

Have always loved the titular essay and Total Eclipse but this time I was so taken by Living Like Weasels


“think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part”



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