When we were in L.A. recently, we crashed another couple’s house to be treated to an amazing prime rib dinner (salt-encrusted and all!) with all the fixings. The dinner was the bait; the company was the treat. It’s so rare these days to find couples (both partners) who want to devour life along with you. […]
Rob Bell’s Love Wins
So. Have you heard about Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins: A Book of Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived yet? No? Have you been hiding in a closet somewhere? You can catch up with these two articles, written before the book even hit the shelves. CNN’s Eric Marrapodi’s article […]
Braille of Heart
This comes from Mark Nepo’s amazing read-in-a-year (or read-at-your-leisure) book called The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want By Living the Life You Have. Live in Your Hands “Several years ago, while doing a poetry reading in New York City, I encountered an angry young man who had just seen a woman mugged. […]
Two Cultures, Two Stories
Liliana and I have found the most extraordinary book, beautiful in every way! And guess what? It’s for adults and children. C’mere a minute. You have to see this. Look what author/illustrator Jeannie Baker did with collages and storytelling in her book Mirror. It’s remarkable. Here’s the front cover. If you flip the book over, […]
Resistance
I’m reading The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield. He talks of Resistance (with a capital R) like it’s something to be reckoned with. You don’t have to be a creative artist to know what he’s talking about. Resistance somehow wheedles its way into everyone’s […]