cactii & books
I'd forgotten I put up this request for topics. Here are answers for the two that came up. Pastor Manning I'll have to address in an entry all about him, maybe after I pay his congregation a visit.
Comment about... gardening, please.
I own two small cactii. I never remember to water them, but luckily Yvette does. That's the sad extent of my involvement in gardening.
Your favorite books.
I haven't given thought lately to favorites, however the below set of titles is one I've copy/pasted into various internet profiles for the last few years. Most of these are fiction books from my youth. I've read a lot of informative and even paradigm-shifting material lately. I flirted with listing some of those titles over this old list but realized that, in an appropriately cyclical fashion, a lot of my thinking is already in these titles. Since then I've more or less read in circles, maturing and refining my youthful intuition. I also noticed just now they fall into a few clean couplets and a 'trilogy'.
the epics:
The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov (and all sequels)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Neuromancer by William Gibson
the individual and childhood:
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
the family vs. the nation:
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
the tribe vs. the individual:
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Comment about... gardening, please.
I own two small cactii. I never remember to water them, but luckily Yvette does. That's the sad extent of my involvement in gardening.
Your favorite books.
I haven't given thought lately to favorites, however the below set of titles is one I've copy/pasted into various internet profiles for the last few years. Most of these are fiction books from my youth. I've read a lot of informative and even paradigm-shifting material lately. I flirted with listing some of those titles over this old list but realized that, in an appropriately cyclical fashion, a lot of my thinking is already in these titles. Since then I've more or less read in circles, maturing and refining my youthful intuition. I also noticed just now they fall into a few clean couplets and a 'trilogy'.
the epics:
The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov (and all sequels)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Neuromancer by William Gibson
the individual and childhood:
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
the family vs. the nation:
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
the tribe vs. the individual:
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn