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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Barbara Kingsolver'
Books That Excite Me Or Make Me Laugh
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment
Tags: Anne Lamott·Barbara Kingsolver·books·Eric Brende·happiness·Jared Diamond·technology·thrift
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 [...]
Tags: Amy Minota·Ann Patchett·Anne Lamott·Annie Dillard·Barbara Kingsolver·Bill Bryson·Bill McKibben·books·Clarissa Pinkola Estes·Elizabeth Marshall Thomas·Eric Brende·Jan Karon·Jared Diamond·Julia Cameron·Lynne Twist·Malcolm Gladwell·Natalie Angier·Nicholas Evans·Orson Scott Card·Robert James Waller·Robert Leo Heilman·Sue MOnk Kidd·Tawniw O'Dell·Ted Kerasote
Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity
Happy Fourth of July! It’s our nation’s birthday. I’ve posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget:
A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth — before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, are [...]
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