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By: Baby-Parenting.com

Baby-Parenting.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:35:36 +0000

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By: Clarityx

Clarityx — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:51:44 +0000

Can I use this info on my blog using the direct link to your blog? Thanks in advance

By: archangel

archangel — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:53:11 +0000

dear JIlly, re Trungpa Rimpoche. Well, let's put it this way. There are many who revere him. Alternately, there are many who find in his writings that come straight from his soul, considerable reason and knowledge. People who write are often inspired, right? The inspiratus, I think, is at least sometimes, far finer made than the writer, sometimes far more developed. In school and private life, Trunga is said by first circle witnesses to have injured those whom he pulled into 'sexual-spiritual favor' ideas. The power differential between students and teachers, the breaking of hearts, the intrusions in all that, and the rumored spreading of disease, ...many persons are still trying to understand these in some manner that makes sense and honors and heals. There seem quite a few figures in the world Jilly, who also brought great gifts, and one way of putting it, is... but also became carried away by the river of power-insanity. When I taught at one of the Buddhist teachers' conferences, I noted one of the most wise old men among the western Buddhists, saying that no eastern Buddhist ought come to America without bringing the entire monastery. Oversight. Accountability. Order. Ethics.

I'll pass on your recommendation re Geo Singleton...and look into "american gods' too.

thanks Jilly

dr.e

By: JillyDybka

JillyDybka — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:21:31 +0000

I read American Gods in one setting – couldn't quit.

Bet your friend who likes Blount & Ellison would like George Singleton.

Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior by Trungpa has been helpful to me for 20 years though I know he's pretty controversial.

By: archangel

archangel — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:35:01 +0000

locolucy dear, I like Lucado. I spoke to him while our paths crossed on book tour long ago, and he is a very interesting person, somewhat guarded, but writes some things that reach across so many kinds of people. Paoelo Cohelo also (not sure I spelled hyis name right)… but that was a good call . Joan Didion also, we did a photo shoot together for an AIDS benefit in NY and she is this teeny tiny woman, I mean, like a spine of a feather, and she has a writing intellect that is huge.

dr.e

By: archangel

archangel — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:48:44 +0000

goodness ReadingReyna, I KNOW de Albas work from a large book of 3 Latina poets published many years ago. I did not know she had these other books.. Thank you!!

dr.e

By: ReadingReyna

ReadingReyna — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:38:10 +0000

I just finished reading the most AMAZING book, Calligraphy of the Witch by Alicia Gaspar de Alba who also wrote Desert Blood-The Juarez Murders. It's a book that as a turned the last page I felt like something down deep in my spirit had been dislodged, released and that void was healed and filled with compassion and love for myself and humanity in general.

By: locolucy

locolucy — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:17:36 +0000

Strength – Connie Mae Flower, Wally Lamb, CPE, Joan Didion
Courage – Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Maya Angelou
Guys – Max Lucado
Guilty Pleasures – Norah Roberts, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Pat Conroy
Childrens – Pooh, Harry Potter, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden, Judy Blume

By: archangel

archangel — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:40:58 +0000

Dr. E, About “3. Books of /for Thinking, Depth, Sanity”, I like “Women Who Run With the Wolves.” Seriously. I love a good mix of stories and shared consciousness and psychology. I love stories, and I really like your explanations. So, hmmm, maybe it fits in the #9 category, too? Sorry, I can't help you with finding something new. I'm only good for one title per comment.
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deb 22 hours ago
I like “The Tao of Pooh”. I'm not sure what category that's in. Pooh explains …
I like “The Artist's Way”. It's about creativity, how easily it is denied and how to find it again.
I like books of information simply presented, like dictionaries for children and anatomy and physiology for non-medical people. I don't recall the name of my favorite in that category, but it has drawings of organs in various disease states (with information about those conditions).
I'm years behind on reading. Don't mind me.
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from FloridaGolfer_Avid Reader

favorite books:
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart – Katie Singer
Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean Auel
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

I love antique books. I love to read something that people were reading a 100 years ago. It is even better if the book itself is 100 years old. I buy things on eBay at used bookstores, and reprints. I have quite a genealogy library… I like to know what my ancestors were up to.

As a child:
Any biography. They used to have these little books that had various pictures of the historic person's life on the front. They were specifically written for children. I remember reading so many. I really liked Marie Curie, Molly Pitcher, Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln and Little Turtle to name a few.

The Boxcar Children series
The Trixie Beldon series
Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys
Little House on the Prairie (all)

[Regarding] My Children:
The Sniper – Theodore Taylor
The Magic Treehouse Series
Junie B. Series
[My son] loves the classics, especially anything with swashbuckling in it…Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea…

[re] Husbands:
Mine is a prolific reader. I buy him anything analyzing the mideast situation. He especially likes Thomas Friedman. Any Biography of a historical person he is interested in… loves fiction, too. He will devour a book and I will hear him laughing in the next room. A Prayer for Owen Meanie, The Looming Tower, The Shipping News, Guns of August, Conspiracy of Fools, From Beirut to Jerusalem…

Oh, and guilty pleasures are:

Three Sisters Trilogy – Nora Roberts
Any “Highlander” book by Karen Moning

I love books, bookstores, book aisles…Just put a table of books out and I must stop and look.

FloridaGolfer_Avid Reader
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here's a short list from a friend who is a 'misfit reader,' he's a lawyer who says he has no time to read, other than cases. But he reads more nearly than I do…

1. serious reading for strength: Pogo (the realist)
2. Humorous reading, anything by Blount and Harlan Ellison
3. Sanity, Cathcher in the Rye, just to remember how helacious it all used to be
4. Anything by a thinker who has info about other parts of the world and people who are different than me
5. As important what I wont read: crapola by screaming hysterical haters who think they're oh so clever, when in fact they're all so pud-ful
6. To sleep and dream: Pessoa
7. Books for men, anything on real modern day gladiators; vince lombardi still stands the test of time in most ways. Any of the books by good sane coaches
8. Kids books: my kids liked Judy Blume when they were meeting the world for the first time, and any of the DK books, hell I like the DK books. Just read one on R&R, excellent
9. Guilty pleasures: will read Gerry Spence, and will read Agatha, but prefer Stephen King, and anything on how to play a better game. Like to read books about how politicians bs the public. True crime.
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Another brief list from a psch professor

sanity: Integrity by John Bebee
poets: any of the 'eats' poets, keats, yeats
children: I give them adult books I read and then we talk about them. The current one is Annie Proux
Humor: most any science fiction (reminding how weird human nature really is), any of the authors who write slice of life memoirs and vignettes with a sharp and ironic eye.
For guys: anything really that has a strong story to it; any of the genres, including history. A recent book on the WPA seems timely now.
strength, I read deeply in Stringfellow, C.S. Lewis, and Merton, but also living authors
Guilty pleasures… well, probably 'manly stuff' about adventure and challenge and impossible odds even though, if true story, you know how its going to end.
There's a whole category I have of books I wish were published, for instance, a sexually intelligent historically accurate intrigue story.

By: Ghostdreams

Ghostdreams — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:34:20 +0000

1. Books of Strength

Cry to Heaven – Anne Rice
Saving Fishes from Drowning – Amy Tan
The Book of Shadows – Namita Gokale
The Stone Child – Doc Estes
Women Who Run with the Wolves – Doc Estes
The Faithful Gardener – Doc Estes

2. Books of Humour and Creativity

American Gods: A Novel – Neil Gaiman
Practical Demonkeeping – Christopher Moore
The Artists Way – Julia Cameron

3. Book for Thinking, Depth, Sanity

Theatre of the Imagination (parts one and two) – Doc Estes
Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories – Greg Sarris
The Immoralist – Andre' Gide
Demian – Herman Hesse
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music – Friedrich Nietzsche

3a. Books for Males in my life (they'd be the same as the one's I'd give to the women I know – example: Of Human Bondage – usually get's a good rating from my male friends)

4. Book, Guilty Pleasures

Discovery of the Art of the Insane – John M. MacGregor

5. Bestsellers, Backlist, Midlist

The Gaean Trilogy (SF) – John Varley
Whose Song Is Sung – Frank Schaefer
Grendel – John Gardner (Beowulf from the Grendels viewpoint)
Any of the early vampire novels by Anne Rice (Lestat, Interview with a Vampire, etc.)

6. Poets

Patti Smith's Horses

7. Books you loved as a child

I don't remember much before age thirteen but one of my most intense reading experiences at thirteen was Demian and Steppenwolf by Hesse (so much so that I read everything he wrote in a few months after starting with Demian)

8. Books you love as an adult
The Focus of Life – A. O. Spare
Of Human Bondage – William Sommerset Maugham
Slaughter-house Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
Theatre of the Imagination (parts one and two) – Doc Estes
Journey to the East and – Hermann Hesse
ZOS Speaks – Kenneth Grant
Also, anything by Robert Anton Wilson will get one's mind moving in a whole different circuit ..

AND although he wasn't a great writer, his stuff keeps me glued, H.P. Lovecraft.

Thanks for the opportunity to share our love of books with one another Doc!
The list I've sent is, as usual, just my two cents worth.
The Happiest of Holidays to you and yours. May the coming year bring you the best of all things!
Ghosty

By: river

river — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:39:42 +0000

1. Books of Strength. . .
Lao Tzu. . . Tao Te Ching
Women who Run with Wolves. . . The Faithful Gardner. . .Dr. E.
Man's Search for Meaning. . .Victor Frankl
The Night. . .Eli Weisel
Dancing in the Flames, Dark Goddess Transformation of Consciousness. . .Marion Woodman
Experiencing the Depth of Jesus Christ. . .Jeanne Guyon

2. Grace Eventually or any of the books by. . . Anne Lamott. . .

3. Books of thinking, depth, and sanity. . .
A Thousand Names for Joy. . . Byron Katie
Sex, Time, and Power and Alphabet vs the Goddess. . .Leonard Shlain
Beloved or any book by Toni Morrison
All of the books of Terri Tempest Williams
The Native Writers. . . those that are able to translate (Native holographic mind). . .such as M. scott Momandy,
Leslie Silko, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdirch. . .

4. Best Sellers, Backlist, and Midlist. . .
The Red Tent. . .Anita Diamant
Cold Mountain. . .Charles Fraizer
The Name of the Rose or any of the books by. . .Umberto Eco

5. Guilty pleasure. . .
Earth Children series. . .Jean Auel
Mist of Avalon collection. . .Marion Zimmer Bradley

6. Poetry
Rumi Coleman Barks translation
Hafiz
Mary Oliver
William Carlos Williams
Pablo Neruda
Joy Harjo

7. Classics Re-reads. . .
To Kill a Mockingbird. . .Harper Lee
Siddhartha . . . Herman Hess
Narcissus and Goldmond. . .Herman Hess

realized while doing this list is how i continue to read favorite authors, but with the internet i am not exploring the new writers. . .