Comments on: Books we’re reading

By: Sandy Weiner

Sandy Weiner — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:49:07 +0000

I just read, The Bear is My Father, by Bear Heart. It is an easy read. with nuggets of wisdom of Indian culture and life throughout. Moving to a more complex read After One Hundred Winters: In search of Reconciliation on American’s Stolen Lands, by historian Margaret Jacobs.
I am very attracted to Indian culture and how to reconcile our history, heal our present and co-create from the heart our future.. I don’t even have the words, as yet, to define what I mean by reconcile or heal or what future may look like.

By: Laura Nardella

Laura Nardella — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:18:37 +0000

I am reading “The God Code” by Gregg Braden. This is a fascinatingly, brilliant, piece of literature that combines science and religion and makes sense.
I am alone in this world, many have died, many contacts have been lost with time and age.
I am looking for a place where I belong. I shelter myself from the world and all of the ways, I do not understand. At the same time, I live in, what is turning into a city, on the north shore of the east coast of Massachusetts. A place, where everyone lives within inches of one another’s front door and no one speaks to each other.
I am a woman of God and I live in a setting where there is no love. Could I find it there?

By: Mark Homer

Mark Homer — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:01:41 +0000

Sarah Chayes, “On Corruption in America: And What is at Stake (2020) Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder have written similar books. Chayes fleshes out what in less thorough and capable hands would easily be dismissed as a paranoid rant. One sentence summary is that all the rich folks are corrupt whatever their label or sales pitch,; they are getting internationally more connected and more openly authoritarian towards the rest of us.
Sounds like Alex Jones, but Sarah Chayes has the detailed historic goods and does a stunning job of connecting the dots into chunks, and chunks into interweaving narratives. (Btw, her father was a professor of law at Harvard, which apparently made for some interesting childhood training; she writes history like a legal brief.) This is not an uplifting book, but I feel like I had a clearer lens with which to view the world.

By: Vicki Vessier

Vicki Vessier — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:08:58 +0000

I’m reading “The Man Who Killed the Deer” by Frank Waters. It’s an old book. My paperback edition was printed in 1942 as a celebration of the 20th year of publication! I chose it to learn about this place where I live. It is a novel about Pueblo Indian life. I live in a village in New Mexico. Within 5 miles of my old adobe home there are the tribal lands of 5 tribes. The land trust I live on was long ago the home of a tribe that assimilated into two of those tribes long ago with the Spanish conquest. The center of their village, was just down the road. I am dedicating my reading this winter to learn more about this place and the people that were here before in order to gain more of a connection to the soul of this land and more of an understanding of the history of my neighbors, whom I respect deeply.

By: Mark D. Homer

Mark D. Homer — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:52:10 +0000

I am reading a book about the relationship between the American Jewish community, especially Rabbi Wise, and Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930″s and WWII.
Roosevelt, it is clear, was quite anti-Semitic in his Upper Class Hudson Valley way, and did nothing during the Holocaust (except when prodded to intervene with the Vichy regime in Africa), other than meet on a first name basis with Wise and issue boiler-plate, vague statements.. The State Department was extremely anti-Semitic. Unfortunately, American Jewish leadership was afraid to push for action or complain, lest it “harm the war effort” or rouse the public against the Jewish community. The conservative German Jewish community, especially the American Jewish Committee, was particularly useless. Not a fast read, but very well written, and it clarifies a large fuzzy area in my mind.
Rafael Medoff, “The Jews Should Keep Quiet” (2019)

By: FairyAnn

FairyAnn — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:10:27 +0000

i just stated reading THE BALANCE POINT: A MISSING LINK in Human Consciousness by Joseph Jenkins, the author of the Humanure Handbook. I discovered it when I went to his web-place to order a case of ‘bibles’ to promote the Church of the Holy Shit. It’s a fun mystery based on actual events and real science. It’s a fun ride as the protagonist has no idea about any of the things he is choosing to experience, so far Wiccan sacred circles, sweat lodges….. loving it. It’s been a minute since I’ve read fiction.