Started reading short books and huffing paint to try to cath up.
20. Wildflowers by Pamela Forey and Cecilia Fitzsimons
A nice primer on wildflowers of north america with nice color illustrations and a cute and practically organized information format for every page... cant say I learned a TON but feel more familiar now and know that my journy of learning about wild plants is one step further
21. Aunt Helen’s Little Herb Book by Evan Pritchard and Susan Comyns Illustrated by Janet Jappen
This book I got at some native American fair I randomly saw one day last year on the way to see a jazz ensemble play. Turned around and got this book and some sage. It tells stories of and interviews a half native old woman with a wild garden of lots of plants from which she gives her anecdotes in this book... the illustrations are black and white, I got more general knowledge from this probabky because the weird blurbs the “Aunt Helen” character throws in makes it more memorable and being based on herbs the book is more focused on edibility and medical potential as well as preperation of the plants which has you thinking about potentially actually using the knowledge presented unlike a wildflower book where youre more soaking in regional and visual identification knowledge but not imagining or visualizing a real use or need for the plants... idk if this book is widely available but it was fun.
22. Irish Blessings with Legends, Poems, & Greetings, 1983 Greenwich House a division of Arlington House
This was a cute and short book of very positive energy feeling little sayings quips and greetings and I enjoyed it although a book like this basiclaly teaches you nothing at all and has no utility whatsoever, I suppose some would say a book of greetings for fortune, luck, positivity, are the best things you could spend time focusing on though
23. How Art Can Make You Happy by Bridget Watson Payne
This was a really cool book. Beautiful design, art of the books looks itself. It mostly talks about going to museums, inspiration, general art “history/scene” knowledge... mostly remember a chapter that talks about how to dress because youre insecure about how you are going to be seen going to a museum.. ?? Lmao I was like um wtf who gives a literal fuck. But theb again my hometown is one of those white trashy towns known for people strolling main street in pajama pants with baby strollers and i can see how that is seen as deplorable,and of course i understand anxiety and nervousness. So this book was kind of a cure for that and good for general inspiration for the everyman/woman who wants to be more in tou h with their creative side
24.meditation in action by Chögyam Trungpa
I had heard about Trungpa before and he seemed important to read about regarding buddhist meditation. This book was pretty good, and really reminded me why i love reading meditation instruction texts, because your mind starts to practice the teachings as you read about it. I dont know much about what I could say about it compared to other spiritual texts but it is a good introduction or reintroduction and will help with ego getting in your way if read
25. The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Jean-Pierre De Caussade introduction by Richard M Foster
This was a book i got from a book store connected to a huge church that has like, live 24/7 christian music playing? Pretty cool place conceptually and this book was interestingly about a french 1700s priest, and read like philosophy which was refreshing and excellent for something from a modern church book store (to probably appropriately generalize the modern commercialized christian movements) after reading the mahabharata this year reading a christian text like this does read to me a little more sensible and truly spiritually driven, Im sure the priest himself helps. Im not an expert. 1700s seems like humanitarianism had been established so tht may be why. But at the same time king louis 7 or whoever edited the bible his own way was influencing church/christianity so maybe still at a very oppressive time, guess theres no black or white, but the age of it made it seem more spiritually genuine and seperate from modern more cheesy christian reading that doesnt necessarily not explain the spiritual ethos directly or clearly, but maybe these styles do it clearly and directly in their own ways... sometimes older styles seemingly actually easier to bring you to a gnostic state once you have processed the strings of words used to describe it
26. The Best American Poetry 2009, guest editor David Wagoner, Series editor David Lehman
This was a cool introduction to a more modernized poetrt style and selections of authors but before the web really went insanely instant with the super monster smart phone wave.. i feel like that sort of changes litrrature especially a genre like poetry tgat seems to ne at keast, VERY driven by style which changes over time greatly and can change quickly ... the intro to this was kind of dense and almost all about critics and the process of selecting poems whch was cool to read about because it was a headspace that probably is very important for this aspect of creation and can relate to many others, but also a kind of funnily weird way i felt to preface a bunch of modern poetry. But with what i said, maybe actually really fitting
Also this month I took a fat crack at a “365 day by day living with god” joyce meyer book that i was following for 2 months at the beginnibg of the year then fell completely away from... since its not really a book about a specific technical body or knowledge or one with a plot you need to follow closely in a shorter period of time, i felt if I finished it way way later than i would anyother book, it would be fine atho i generally would hust restart or put the book away
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