tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736158478689457949.post4766066892634339077..comments2023-05-31T03:54:24.488-07:00Comments on Seasonality:Embracing Change : SPEAKING BOOKSHill Country Hippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08723660054417859671noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736158478689457949.post-77516237045797018412009-04-03T19:22:00.000-07:002009-04-03T19:22:00.000-07:00You are most welcome!You are most welcome!Hill Country Hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08723660054417859671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736158478689457949.post-38434414794718085362009-04-03T15:27:00.000-07:002009-04-03T15:27:00.000-07:00Excellent new philosophy to adopt! Ties into a sto...Excellent new philosophy to adopt! Ties into a story that John Travolta was telling on Inside the Actor's Studio about living one's life as an art. He said that when he first got to Manhattan and very poor he realized that his resources could be spent in many ways and he chose the experiences that 'filled him up the most.' He would spend his hard-earned dollars to watch a foreign film (Bergman or Fellini for example) rather than a current Hollywood one. He chose to read the NY Times every day and completely rather than spend the same time reading a flavor-of-the-week novel. I think you're refining your 'art of reading.' And you and jules are on target about that experience of a book speaking to us when the time is right. "When the student is ready, the teacher appears", hmmmm? BTW, got my book yesterday and once again, thank you so very much.musingegrethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10000667855500413032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736158478689457949.post-14772572745854778442009-04-02T13:32:00.000-07:002009-04-02T13:32:00.000-07:00When I first moved to Wimberley last year, everybo...When I first moved to Wimberley last year, everybody was talking about a book called Depletion and Abundance, by Sharon Astyk, so I ordered it. But when I tried to read it, it was just too scary, too out there. Now, a year later, I've picked it up again, and just like you said, I'm eating it up! It makes so much sense now. I think I just needed this year in my very liberal surroundings to get educated and a bit radicalized, before I was ready to take it all in.Hill Country Hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08723660054417859671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736158478689457949.post-36854924716858848152009-04-02T10:09:00.000-07:002009-04-02T10:09:00.000-07:00I remember reading a book that I definitely didn't...I remember reading a book that I definitely didn't get into. I put it away on the shelf. Many many years later, I picked it back up and behold! I couldn't put it down that time until I was through. Sometimes, even the bad books get read all the way through just to see how it ends. Then after, I think, jeez, that was a terrible book but I'm glad to finish, either to find out how it ends, or so I'm free to move on to another book.juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351247097680979735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1736158478689457949.post-3106537905813494492009-04-02T08:22:00.000-07:002009-04-02T08:22:00.000-07:00Wow! I just recently came to that same conclusion ...Wow! I just recently came to that same conclusion myself! And my stacks of books to read still keep multiplying! I've also decided that it's okay to skim a book... (not a novel but an "informational" book)... and I still enjoy certain books that way!Teri Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621447330669059689noreply@blogger.com