From the bookshelf: December 2024
Each month I have a goal to read five books. Here are the books I read in December 2024.
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The crucible of the life cycle
Winter “is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”
The 2024 year-end reading list
The annual list of books I’ve enjoyed over the past twelve months.
History’s fascinating web of connections
An exhilarating history looks at the multiplicity of causes and effects that produced past and present.
Great necessities call out great virtues
Framing is language for debate that carries and evokes ideas about what we value.
Gentleness is powerful. Stillness is strength.
Practices to nourish our capacity for understanding, love, joy, and inclusiveness.
Deep in our Age of Folly
Lewis Lapham eloquently called us to put the wisdom of the past at the service of the present.
From the bookshelf: November 2024
Each month I have a goal to read five books. Here are the books I read in November 2024.
Disagreement without hatred
Reconciliation relies on grace, challenging examples, and the realization we have no viable alternative.
Step away from the exhausting digital chatter
As humans we have learned how to fly but seem to have lost the ability to dawdle.
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