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Entries Tagged as 'books'
This & That In Mid-July
July 12th, 2011 · No Comments · sustainability
This And That, Approaching Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, work
I’ve added a delicious new book by Amy Minato to Books I Love, one that would be great to read over the Thanksgiving weekend . . . . at work, the rideshare proposal I’ve been working on for months with many others is finally reaching closure, thank the Goddess . . . . . Green [...]
Looking Forward To . . .
June 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · sustainability
A few varied notes: I’m leaving tomorrow afternoon for Bend, Oregon for a conference on public participation and to be filmed for a cable TV segment on transportation options . . . . . Hanmi and I are working on the Resources For Good Living Page and plan to post it on Summer Solstice (June [...]
Tags: books·Jean Baumann·Lake Oswego
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 [...]
Tags: Anne Lamott·Barbara Kingsolver·books·Eric Brende·happiness·Jared Diamond·technology·thrift
Books I Love
March 7th, 2009 · 14 Comments ·
While I’m generally a gentle person, I admit I’m a fast, aggressive reader. The Reading Police would arrest me if they could catch me. I think of my recommendations here as my community service. Last updated August 2, 2013, to the Inspiring category directly below. While I don’t have a Children’s Books section, I enthusiastically refer folks to Patterson’s Picks, [...]
Tags: Amy Minota·Ann Patchett·Anne Lamott·Annie Dillard·Barbara Kingsolver·Bill Bryson·Bill McKibben·books·Chip Heath·Clarissa Pinkola Estes·Dan Heath·Elizabeth Gilbert·Elizabeth Marshall Thomas·Eric Brende·Geneen Roth·Heath brothers·Jan Karon·Jared Diamond·Julia Cameron·Lynne Twist·Malcolm Gladwell·Natalie Angier·Nicholas Evans·Orson Scott Card·Philip Connors·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, [...]
Tags: Barbara Kingsolver·books·citizenship·cooking·culture·Declaration of Independence·earth·environment·Eric Brende·exercise·green living·land·life·outdoors·TV
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