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Books That Excite Me Or Make Me Laugh

March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment

My experience is that great books are like life-blood to the Diamond-Cut Life (a life rich in joy and low in consumption). I have often been dollar-poor, and though I’m not any longer, good books give me — I think us — an exciting inner life whatever our external status in the world. Reading an [...]

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Books I Love

March 7th, 2009 · 12 Comments · sustainability

Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
I bought this book in hardcover the day it came out (in spring 2010) — something I’ve never done before — because I experience Ms. Lamott’s rich, deeply human writing as a kind of nutrition. This novel, which follows through on the lives of characters developed earlier in Rosie and Crooked [...]

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Confession: I Love Church

February 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · spirituality & religion, sustainability

Most of us have a closeted part of ourselves, a part we don’t readily reveal. For some, it is sexual orientation, or political beliefs. But for me, it is the fact that I love church and love to worship God there, with others.

Why am I shy about this, when I am not known for shyness in general? There’s more than one reason, but just one I can tackle before I

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