A great book if you want to understand the history of Chile and what animates the Chilean soul. Excerpts: This book is an exercise in nostalgia. No one passes by casually, however lost he may be, although many visitors decide to stay forever, enamored of the land and the people. This elongated country is like…
Interesting travel and relationship book. Recommended by my wife. Excerpts below: “Marriage is no longer about making alliances to further your parents’ interest or about linking a dependent female to a dominant male. Now both women and men can say they want to marry someone with similar ideals, talents, aspirations, and qualities. We want equals,”…
This is a scary book. It is also a book that will force you to examine your values. Here are 3 videos that made me more interested in this: A few interesting tidbits from the book: Neuroplasticity – the ability of our brains to develop the parts of it that we train – is an…
The Palouse is a lentil, barley, wheat and canola growing region in north central Idaho and southeast Washington. I did a photography scouting trip in early spring (April) and will be going back over the next several months as much as I can. Here is a brief preview.
A beautiful, modern take on the Rumi and Shams love story by Elif Shafak. Two storylines – a modern one and an ancient one run in parallel. Some quotes from the book: In many ways the twenty-first century is not that different from the thirteenth century. Both will be recorded in history as times of…
This was a good book to read before my 49th birthday! Arthur Brooks makes the case that after our mid thirties, we have to make the jump between fluid and crystallized intelligence if we are to continue contributing to society. Rigidly holding on to the “first curve” is often responsible for the “midlife crisis”. He…
(original post 2021-10) A good, short read – about an hour. Best to read on one’s birthday :-). (I do every year). Excerpts in italics below. Before you read the book or the excerpts, watch this TED talk by Leonard Skinner. He has figured out what Seneca wrote about more than 1900 years ago. If…
2-22-22 What a great day to have a birthday! Now only if I had turned 22 today 🙂
