Zink, Nell. The Wallcreeper: A Novel. St. Louis, MO: Dorothy Project, 2014.

Finished: 2015-06-19

Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon, 1984.

Finished: 2015-06-17

Griswold, Eliza. I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan. New York. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2014.

Finished: 2015-06-01

Emotional and spiritual pain arise when conditions and attachments become misaligned, when you misattribute inherent existence to them, and when you misrecognize their impermanence.

Matthiessen, Peter. Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend. Modern Library Paperback ed. New York: Modern Library, 2008.

Finished: 2015-05-26

Let’s build a wall,
A wall of trust,
That we can use
To surround our enemies,
Where we can
Burn their bodies.
Trust us.

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake: A Novel. New York: Anchor, 2004.

Finished: 2015-04-28

The thing to remember about being vulnerable is that it’s not just a theoretical openness. It’s a willingness to step out and actually be wounded. If you commit to being vulnerable, wounds will happen, and in fact at times the source of those wounds will be the most wounding part of all. Not everyone has patience for a little blood and gore, not even within your own tribe.

Solstad, Dag. Shyness and Dignity: A Novel. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 2006.

Finished: 2015-04-24

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor, 1995.

Finished: 2015-04-21