For the past several weeks I haven't done much writing beyond emails. I haven’t added anything to this blog in quite a while. I miss being here.
Excuses abound, of course. Holidays, travel, a new job, blues band jamming and practice, and a couple of bouts with illness - among others. But I think the deeper reason is that I haven't felt committed to much worth sharing. I seem to be in some kind of prospecting mode, scouting some new environs, some old, some wishes and fantasies. And athrough it all a kind of breathless waiting for something to precipitate out of it all.
I've been reading a lot. Since subscribing to audible.com I "read" 4 or 5 books a month. I do it mostly while on a treadmill or doing a weights workout. That gets me 45-90 minutes worth of reading each day. Maybe there's some hint in list of books I've read. Maybe not. A perusal of my catalog on Librarything.com
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
No country for old men by Cormac McCarthy
The golden compass by Philip Pullman
Microtrends by Mark Penn
Musicophilia - by Oliver Sacks
Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
The Chopin Manuscript by various
Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
Playing For Pizza by John Grisham
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution by David Quammen
The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard Feynman
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Spook Country unabridged by William Gibson
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
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