LAmps
Oasis
Listening to Start the Week and a conversation about violence and conflict.
Novel Tracker
Publisher’s Weekly: Best books of 2018.
(I wish the NYT did it this way as well, so you could see past years easily. Not that google won’t help, but still…)
Mann Booker Prize: 2018
On My Board this AM
Blue sky this morning
Listened to a podcast on poetry. Enjoyed it but was puzzled to hear them calling each other mom and dad. Realized it was a Christian homeschooling outfit from the West Coast. Still, not bad….made me think about the whole credentialing thing — who gets to wear the mantle of expert — and one of the participants did offer an interesting phrase — literary density. I like this idea as some texts definitely carry more weight and can sustain repeated, thorough analysis, with new payoffs each time.
Sun Again
Listening to This American Life: The Walls.
common sense thoughts on meditation
Funny, thoughtful article here, particularly about using meditation as a shield against technology.
Sun rISES in the East
Tuesday Morning Walk
Listening to the NYT Book Review Podcast: Andrew Delbanco invoking Emerson: The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.I think the source is here.
Rob Dunn’s book sounds good too.
Monday morning sky
Start the Week on happiness and the last half of part one of Studio 360’s 2018 hits.
Does inflammation in any part of the body contribute to depression?
Why shouldn’t we re-make Remain in Light over and over again?
Why shouldn’t we read dense, complicated novels to address the lack of light during winter?
Where can I find as much library music as possible?
