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COYOTE'S MORNING CRY Sharon Butalagood Meditations & Dreams from a Life in NatureWHY ZEBRAS DON'T GET ULCERSexcellent Robert M. Sapolskynote the criticism of Bernie Siegel(cancer)THE SOUL'S CODE In Search of Character and CallingJAMES HILLMANNote how he starts the book with "Epigraphs in lieu of a preface"In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted._ C. G. JUNGOf course, you can argue with the proposition that all we are is ..... genes and environment. You can insist that there's..something more. But if you try to visualize the form this something would take, or articulate it clearly, you'll find the task impossible, for any force that is not in the genes or the environment is outside of physical reality as we perceive it. It's beyond scientific discourse...... This doesn't mean it doesn't exist._ ROBERT WRIGHT, The Moral AnimalI don't develop ; I am._PABLO PICASSOpage 62..... The platonic myth of growing down with which we began this chapter says the soul descends in four modes-via the body, the parents,place, and circumstances. These four ways can be instructions for completing the image you brought with you on arrival. First, your body: Growing down means going with the sag of gravity that accompanies aging.Second, admitting yourself to be one among your people and a member of the family tree, including its twisted and rotten branches. Third, living in a place that suits your soul and that ties you down with duties and customs. Last, giving back what circumstances gave you by means of gestures that declare your full attachment to this world.Lorna Crozier The Collected Poems of Mrs. BentleyA Saving GraceFACING THE WORLD WITH SOUL__ The reimagination of modern lifeROBERT SARDELLOActive imaginal thought promotes the gradual transforming of the taken for granted notion that it is we who are doing the thinking to the stance that it is the world that thinks through us. p.28note the house, door, window analogy......Larger windows do something different. They make the house more self-conscious, more open and vulnerable, more unsure. Large picture windows change seeing through into looking at and being seen, instilling paranoia in the house. (interesting)note his fascinating discussion of the relation of economics, money and the soul of the world p.94He certainly leans in the direction of homeopathyExcellent book: topics like economics, things, architecture, and medicine he gives startling new meaning toONLY COMPANION_Japanese Poems of Love and Longingvery good--- Traditional five line poemsMODERN-DAY MIRACLES How Ordinary People Experience SupernaturalActs Of God Paul PratherA good book- doesn't New Age the material to death- researchedadequately and states his case and beliefThe PATH to LOVE---- Renewing the Power of Spirit In Your LIfeDEEPAK CHOPRA__another excellent book-refer to the printed notes for material I have used- I did try to refer to the page numbers for material I usedThe Dancing Mind: Toni Morrisonbrief, but powerful handling of the difficulties and necessities faced by those involved in the reading/writing life in today's societyFROM BEGINNING TO END-The Rituals of Our Lives- Robert Fulghuman audio book, read by the authorwell read, how habits and routines bring structure and meaning to daily lifeAN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS OLIVER SACKSseven paradoxical talesa fascinating look at how our brains construct our individual worlds7 case historiesHow We Die-Reflections on Life's Final ChapterSherwin B. Nuland...death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.-John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, 1612Man is an obligate aerobe. This statement is an experimentally proven, molecular-level certaintyShakespeare had Julius Caesar reflect:Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.Rilke wrote:Oh Lord, give each of us his own death,The dying, that issues forth out of lifeIn which he had love, meaning and despair.Wislawa Szymborska...Poems New and Collected 1957-1997superb poetry Why do we treat the fleeting daywith so much needless fear and sorrow?It's in its nature not to stay:Today is always gone tomorrow.THE HEALING HEART-POEMS OF LOSS AND LIFEEleanor KoldofskyexcellentFINDING SERENITY in the AGE OF ANXIETY- Robert Gerzonfrom toxic anxiety to natural anxiety to sacred anxiety- how we can respond to each effectivelyfrom: WORDS TO COMFORT, WORDS TO HEAL compiled by Juliet MabeyThis life is only a prelude to eternity. For that which we call death is but a pause, in truth a progress into life.SENECAThat day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.SENECA, from MORAL AND POLITICAL ESSAYSRainer Maria RilkePROSE AND POETRYEdited by Egon Schwarz"I am afraid. One has to take some action against fear, once one has it."-from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggePRAYER THE HIDDEN FIRE- Tom Harpurexcellent-includes a number of useful prayers and an address to write toLiving Prayer-Robert BensonWe are meant to be taken, blessed and broken. It is our brokenness, perhaps even our willingness to be broken, that holds the key to whatever it is we have to share. p.42PRAYER:LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL-more than 300 prayers from around the world-Philip DunnGOD- The Evidence-The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World Patrick Glynn-superb treatment-marshalls all the evidence for the action of GOD in the universeMAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING- Viktor E. Frankl-his suffering resulted in the development of an approach to psychotherapy called logotherapyLiving in Process-Anne Wilson Schaef-basic truths for living the path of the soulMoor Eeffoc, by the way, comes from Dickens, via Chesterton. It is Coffee Room, written on a glass door, and seen from inside the room. For me, it is the irrational, intuitive reality, seen from the inside. For passers-by, it seems to be a coffee room. Those of us who live on the inside know it is that magic place,Moor Eeffoc. pg. 128GOD IN ALL WORLDS- Lucinda Vardey-tremendous anthology of contemporary spiritual writing- I should obtain a copy for my libraryTHE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY- Carlos Castaneda-follows the philosophy presented in his series-does strike me as an amalgamation of his writings after his death-took a disliking to some of the language in certain sections-I have never seen any foul language in any of Castaneda's previous worksStreams of Living Water-Richard J. FosterCelebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith-the attractive feature of the book is that each tradition is broken down into notable figures and significant movements, right from origin to present-goodHealing Emotions - Conversations with the DALAI LAMA on mindfullness, emotions, and healthedited by Daniel Goleman-some excellent exchangesScar Tissue-Michael Ignatieff-superbpg186 "WHatever decision you make-whether you chose as Mrs. Adkins did or not-it is important to understand that it is a choice. You can choose to die, or you can choose life beyond selfhood, the life beyond the gates of truth. How you choose, Moe taught me, depends on the value you place on self-consciousness. No one can decide that for you. You can choose life or you can choose consciousness, but as Mrs. Adkins knew, the illness does not allow you both. If you do not act, as Mrs.Adkins did, on the first signs of its presence within you, the illness will not even allow you the dignity of a choice.FLAWLESS Louis A. Tartaglia, M.D.- some excellent tips-I found my character flawThe Handbook of Heartbreak - Robert Pinskyan excellent selection of heartfelt poetry. I have saved several examples and placed them throughout my collectionBecoming Human-Jean Vanier- from the CBC Lecture series- excellent, I truly wish I could change, I am tryingFOR THE TIME BEING- ANNIE DILLARD(from the book cover) - personal narrative that surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China.Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity.- a stunning bookLAST FLESH-LIFE IN THE TRANSHUMAN ERA-CHRISTOPHER DEWDNEY-from the cover-Never before has human life been able to change itself, to reach into its own genetic structure and rearrange its molecular basis-now it can. We are about to enter the transitional period between the human and posthuman eras-the transhuman age.Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and neuroscience are about to give humans the keys to their own destiny.-some fascinating speculationsETERNAL ECHOES-JOHN O'DONOHUE....to assure us that from all eternity we have belonged, and to answer the question that echoes at the heart of all longing: While we are here, where is it that we are absent from?The Force of Character: James HIllmanpg.43- Oldness is an adventure. Stepping from the bathtub, hurrying to the phone, or just going down the stairs presents as much risk as traveling camelback in the Gobi. Once we were down the stairs and out the door way ahead of our feet. Now who knows when the trick knee willgive out or the foot miss the tread. Once we learned from the fox and the hawk; now the walrus, the tortoise, and the moose in a dark bog are our mentors. The adventure of slowness.High Tech Heretic- CLIFFORD STOLLWhy Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian"disdains the inflated promises made on their behalf" barbed, opinionated, and essentialHow We Believe: The Search for God..........Faith, not reason, religion, not science, is the proper domain of God's esistence.....DOUBLE DOWN-FREDERICK & STEVEN BARTHELME-a testimony to the risky allure of casinos-a reflection on the pull and power of illusionsDEATH ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON- Richard John NeuhausThe Seven Last Words are these:"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.""Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.""Woman, behold your son. Son, behold your mother.""My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?""I thirst.""It is finished.""Father, into your hands I command my spirit."-exceptionalGOD IS NO LAUGHING MATTER- Julia Cameron- some excellent exercises- Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path- Remember St. Augustine's advice: "It is solved by walking."Why We Hurt- The Natural History of Pain-Frank T. Vertosick- I'm jus' pain covered in skin. I know what it is...-the dying Mrs. Wilson in John Steinbeck's Grapes of WrathWhat Remains to be Discovered-John MaddoxMapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life,and the Future of the Human Race-excllent summary to date of these three scientific areas-difficult reading at times_Slowing Down to the Speed of Life- Richard Carlson & Joseph Bailey- The most important moment of your life is this one-right now! Truly it's the only moment that you have. All other moments are either overand are now just a memory, or they are yet to be-a mere speculative thought about some future moment.pg. 194 This is the key philosophy in the book.The Prayer of Jabez- Bruce Wilkinson- a remarkable little book-see 1 Chronicles 4:9- Here's the verse: Oh, that You would bless me indeed,and enlarge my territory,that Your hand would be with me,and that You would keep me from evil.7/17/02 1st book I've read in a long time- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE? Brian C. Stiller- a thoughtful treatment-bible based- .....not the good we think we have done, but trusting and believing in the good Jesus did. p.1391/13/03 I'm finally reading again. Just finished 100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka-a memoir-- Arthur Schaller-as the cover says: It's a clear-eyed memoir of a boy coming of age in Poland. It took 30 years for him to be able to evenspeak about those events. A child of today would not survive!!!!!6/23/03 The Artist's Way (A Spritual Path to Higher Creativity) Stunning!!! This sourcebook is ten years old. Where have I been? Jung revisited. Morning pages. Wow! Dates with the artist. Yes. Julia Cameron17/10/03 The Power of Patience, M.J. Ryan lots of quotations and motivational stories, very good, I'm reminded of Henry Nouwen who placed the idea of waiting patiently in a religious context.Mary had to wait for the birth of Jesus. Remember Gabriel! Be not afraid.29/10/03 LIfe of Pi, Yann Martel This is the first fiction I've read in months. I'm stunned! The concept is the most original I've ever seen. The ending brings the book back to life.14/11/03 FASTER The Acceleration of Just About Everything, James Gleick the key similie in this book: "like a methamphetamenic rider on a horse" He must have been exercising writer's license because I couldn't find an entry in the dictionary for methamphetaminic. In any case the book is brilliant. As the cover says "Synchronize your watches. We have reached the epoch of the nonosecond. This is the heyday of speed.19/11/03 It's Not About the Bike- My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins-"Either the chemo works or it doesn't. If it does you go on to live a normal life. If it doesn't it usually comes back in three to four months. You'll be dead in several more. "You have to believe and you have to fight."26/03/04 The Power of Now- Eckhart Tolle- Never has a book hit me between the eyes like this one! (see Carlson above)Themes and keywords:Life is always now.The burden of "me"Your life is not your life situationEvery cell embodies intelligenceThe delight of beingStories cover up the simplicity of this momentSense perceptions as an exit from mindMeeting others in PresenceThe nature of form is to be unstableSpontaneous right actionSeparating emotion from the storyCollective pain-bodies of nationsBeing the awareness that feels the painAwareness replaces mind-identificationNo time is needed to be who you are...there is no problem now3/3/04 REASON FOR HOPE-A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY, Jane Goodall "poignant and insightful", I pray that there is in fact reason for hope. Sometimes I really doubt it.4/16/04 Running with Walker- A Memoir, Robert Hughes "With disarming honesty and humour the book tells how a family copes ans keeps hope alive despite the staggering difficulties autism presents.4/17 Night- Elie Wiesel- I cannot comprehend. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.The last 3 paragraphs: "One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.7/1 Golden Gate-Vikram Seth The novel is one long poem. The plot does indeed make SENSE.IT was one of the books referred to by King.7/4 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim-David Sedaris Scathingly funny, this book had me laughing outright in several spots. Brilliant!!!10/23 HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA Transforming the Mind-Teachings On Generating Compassion- Copied the eight verses on transforming the mind.Good!Theme-As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world.11/17 AN ACCIDENTAL CANADIAN Reflections on my home and (not) native land MARGARET WENTE A very intriguing mix of humour and pathos. She makes some valid points, for sure.12/4 *A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING BILL BRYSON 500 pages and two succinct statements,one by Author Bryson and one by Edward O. Wilson: "But here's an extremely salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.", "One planet, one experiment." Bryson page 477.12/22 FLU The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It-Gina Kolata- SCARY 100,000 million dead2/12/05 Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation-Lynne Truss-Amazing book! A cat has claws at the end of its paws, A comma's a pause at the end of a clause.I actually have a letter from the Apostrophe Protection Society (completely tongue-in-cheek) that I can use for "offenders." (see Scribblings on hard drive)A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires several shots, completely wrecking the place. “Why?” asks the confused waiter as the panda heads for the exit. The animal produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it to the waiter. “I’m a panda,” he says at the door. “Look it up.”The waiter turns to the relevant entry and reads: “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leave."/03 ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE; An Inquiry into Values Robert M. Pirsig-...about a unification of spiritual feeling and technological thought3/4/05 TESTAMENT NINO RICCI A NOVEL- In Testament, Canadian author Nino Ricci tells a fictionalized account of Jesus's life, focusing on him as a man. The novel is divided into four sections, each told by a different person in his life. The different narrators are Judas, Mary Magdalene, his mother Mary, and Simon, a young Syrian shepherd. The author couples his fanciful story of Jesus as a mere mortal becoming myth with a realistic depiction of political and ethnic intrigue of the era. It's an approach that some will find blasphemous and others will find thought-provoking. The Christian Science Monitor says, "Nino Ricci's Testament deserves a wide audience and should ignite vigorous debate."superb characterization3/24 /05 Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity-David Bodanis- I've used many of the book's descriptions as fill in for elementary science lessons. Wonderful!!3/30/05 In praise of slow : how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed / Carl Honoré. -- Excellent point of view!!!7/16/05 Dropping Ashes on the Buddha-The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn-Compiled & Edited by Stephen Mitchellfrom page 36- "The visitor said, 'My friends think I'm crazy because I'm interested in Zen.'Soen-sa said,'Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachments'you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.'8/2/05 Goldie: a lotus grows in the mud-"That is the idea behind this book. Not to tell my life story, but to speak openly and from the heart...She came across to me as honest.8/10 The Historian: A Novel-Elizabeth Kostova-An interesting blend of fact and fantasy-a confrontation with the definition of evil.8/15/ blink-by the author of THE TIPPING POINT, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking-Malcolm Gladwell-Choices made in an instant-superb8/24 BLUE GOLD-THE BATTLE AGAINST CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'S WATER-Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke- It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water without price from the fountain of the water of life.-REVELATION 21:68/29 THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBALISM AND THE REINVENTION OF THE WORLD-John Ralston Saul-In four words"applied economics as alchemy." Some superb developed concepts here that made one think. Irregular war, for example, and God as "not dead."7/17/06 OBASAN Joy Kogawa pg. 205 "It's the chicken coop "house" we live in that I mind. The uninsulated unbelievable thin-as-a-cotton-dress hovel never before inhabited in winter by human beings. In summer....."pg. 238-"It was a terrible business what we did to our Japanese". Indeed!!!!8/24/07 BREAK ON THROUGH-The LIfe and Death of Jim Morrison-James Riordan & Jerry Prochnicky-"You must confront your life which is sneaking up on you like a rapt coiled serpent." He viewed himself as a poet not a rock star. He's buried in a city of poets. Very Good!!!!!7/28/09 A NEW EARTH- Awakening to Your Life's Purpose- Eckhart Tolle- "A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now and you are it!! Super!7/30 ENTER MOURNING- A Memoir on Death, Dementia, & Coming Home- Heather Menzies- Non-Fiction as good as "Scar Tissue". Some excellent recommended reading also!9/7 THE WORLD WITHOUT US- Powerful- "As the Voyagers and Pioneers erode away to stardust, in the end our radio waves, bearing sounds and images that record barely more than a single century of human existence, will be all the universe holds of us. IT's hardly an instant, even in human terms, but a remakably fruitful-if convulsive- one. Whoever awaits our news at the edge of time will get an earful. They may not understand Lucy, but they will hear us laugh.7/6/2010 CIGAR BOX BANJO-Paul Quarrington- Superb!!! see the PDF file: "Paul Quarrington on Cancer". Also in "Scribblings".7/21/ THE VANISHING FACE OF GAIA: A FINAL WARNING-James Lovelock-Superb! A close look at what the observational science is saying. He finds fault with climate modelling. He comes out strongly on the side of nuclear power as a stop gap measure, although the damage is irreversible.7/26 eaarth: MAKING A LIFE ON A TOUGH NEW PLANET- Bill MCKibben-"We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable, but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth." Indeed!!!!8/3 A Field Guide to the Invisible-Wayne Biddle Consider, therefore, this further evidence of bodies whose existence you must acknowlege though they cannot be seen-Titus Lucretius Carus-from allergens to zeitgeist (58 invisible "things".8/4 A Field Guide to Germs-Wayne Biddle-from adenovrus to Zika Fever-amazing how germs really have shaped the history of humankind-cholera, bubonic pague, polio, smallpox-on and on8/31 Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle-Chris Hedges-Our culture can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion.4/15/2011 The TIGER: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival- John VaillantA Condensed Passage: “And this was when he heard it. ‘This sound,’ said Sokolov, ‘you cannot confuse it with anything else-God willing you should never hear it. My partner was a hundred yards away, and he said that when he heard that roar he was stunned; it was all he could do not to start running.’”“….When thunder rolls, lions will roar back. What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?“I will use an analogy,” said Sokolov, trying his best to articulate what he heard and felt on that ridge. “Every melody is based on the same seven notes, but some melodies make you happy, some make you sad, and some can terrify you. Well, this was a roar which makes your blood go cold in your veins and your hair stand up on your head. You could call it a ‘premonition of death.’ When I heard it, I thought, ‘That tiger is going to kill somebody,’ but the wind was blowing and my back was turned, so at first I didn’t realize it was going to be me.”8/8 Forget You had a Daughter: Doing Time in the “Bangkok Hilton”- SANDRA GREGORY With Michael Tierney-horrific prison conditions in Lard Yao, even worse in Durham8/22/2011 HOW THE END BEGINS; THE ROAD TO A NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III – Ron Rosenbaum-from the last paragraph: “All I can say is- if this were my letter of last resort: If you’re in a position to launch, whoever you are, now or in the future, if you’re in a position to send the targeting codes, if it’s up to you, whoever you are, my plea is: Nothing justifies following orders for genocide. Don’t send those codes, don’t twist those keys.2/20/2012 The Story of EDGAR SAWTELLE-David Wroblewski-a first novelEdgar Sawtelle is a “boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent.”** I have read many others in the meantime, but these are the best!! B.B.8/31/2016 How to See the World-Nicholas Mirzoeff- ‘It’s as if our phones have come alive, taken to the air, and are watching us’ (in a negative way!)See the entire train analogy p.132,9/12/ On Extinction-Melanie Challenger- By anonymous Reviewer-“‘On Extinction’ carries an extrme burden to prove itself worthy of its own existence. Challenger has staked her book’s right to exist on the strange synthesis of poetry and science. I cannot say if it always works, but I can say that a strangeness is evoked, a strangeness that conveys how, in spite of all our erudition, we walk the earth in the 21stcentury as in a dream – arms out-stretched, eyes closed, the natural landscape dropping away into oblivion after our every footfall.”-the extinction of the Fuegians and other indigenous people was brought about by a culture that rationalized ever greater distances between society and nature. Proselytizing was an essential method of imposing social codes on large numbers of people, but it also legitimized the invasion of one culture by another deemed to be more effective.-[missionary work] (my words) (p.198) was driven by ideologies that sanctioned the suppression of nature and drove a wedge between people’s lives and the natural world.-as in thousands of places around the world, customs and conventions governed by the sea and earth had disappeared. P.24210/8 The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond-Christophe Galfard- In his words I now know, at least idea wise as much as a graduate student and as much as only a handful of people knew when I was 15.Wow!-Everything experienced is regulated by matter and light playing with each other, turning into one another, and by electrons categorically refusing to share their bit of spacetime with a copy of themselves.-Gravity is not a force. It is a fall down a space/time curve.10/17 RUNNING IN THE FAMILY-Michael Ondaatje- “amber-assed” spider, “Objects stayed and people disappeared. Marvelously wound together! Hope to use some of the elements of style in my memoir. J11/05 PINPOINT:HOW GPS IS CHANGING TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND OUR MINDS-as the author says: “Who would have known?” Lots of new facts: The Earth is an oblate spheroid11/07 The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers-“the concept of photograph as document is lost”-“Altering images with no record or verification turns everything into photo illustration as memory cards are turned over or tricked out.” (also see my memoir writing binder)Here try a few from my list. More than ten years in the making this collection represents the best that I have read. Some religious connotations in a few, but if you’re not into organized religion disregard them. Happy reading!!!! B.B.