The Delight of Being Ordinary

 By Roland Merullo

This wonderful, absolutely must-read book is about a road trip that the Pope and the Dalai Lama take. There is a lot of wisdom hidden in the pages of this adventure story, besides being an unputdownable read.

The House In The Cerulean Sea

This is an unexpected story but it has been so beautifully crafted, that a few pages in, you are drawn into the unlikeliest of families… you soon feel part of them, and realize some basic truths of life. This special family is everyone’s family and one realizes that huge differences, happiness and unhappiness in equal measure, mistakes and errors of judgement, all go into making life richer and more beautiful. We don’t have to wish away the bad things that happen, or things that we cannot understand happening to us, we just have to accept and wait till they get assimilated into our lives making the whole experience of Life that much richer…

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

 by Charlie Mackesy is MUST READ. 

This book came into existence over long conversations Mackesy had with his friend Bear Grylls. Of the book, Grylls says, ‘Love, friendship and kindness - this book speaks a universal language.’ 

……and it is much needed by each one of us….

Jon Kabat-Zinn

 Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness.

Toni Morrison

On language

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Language can never “pin down” slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity is in its reach toward the ineffable.

Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting, or refusing to sanctify; whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice word, the chosen silence, unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its destruction.

Ursula K. Le Guin

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”

Henry Beston

In Northern Farm

.....a small thing can touch the heart and the imagination, a fine phrase is as good as an epic, and a small brook in the quiet of a wood can have its say with a voice more profound than the thunder of any cataract. A gold and scarlet leaf floating solitary on the clear, black water of the morning rain barrel can catch the emotion of a whole season, and chimney smoke blowing across the winter moon can be a symbol of all that is mysterious in human life.

What imagery!!!!