Reading journal, August 28 - September 02, 2015

September 02, 2015 by Elaine

Icon credit: Reading by Claire Jones from the Noun Project

“The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling spine, is, or should be, the only instrument used upon a book.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

A Wilderness Pilgrimage: Where Do We Go When We Die by Parker Palmer (On Being)

How We Identify | How We live by Sharon Salzberg (On Being)

Virginia Woolf on How to Read a Book by Maria Popova (Brain Pickings)

Vladimir Nabokov on What Makes a Good Reader (Brain Pickings)

Reading journal, August 24-28, 2015

August 28, 2015 by Elaine

Forever and Ever: Losing My Husband at 24 by Sarah McBride (Medium)

Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver (O)

To Separate Our Dreams from Others' Fears by Sharon Salzberg (On Being)

We All Have Bad Days and We All Need a Little Kindness by Lori Deschene (Tiny Buddha)

“A book is a heart…”

January 19, 2015 by Elaine

“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”

~Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

Writer as cartographer

January 08, 2015 by Elaine

“Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves.”

~Alain de Botton