I confess, open arts intimidated me just a little. As a humanities professor I teach, among other things, appreciation of the arts. I lament that my students don’t always even bother to participate and really` seek out opportunities to experience in the art that surround us everyday. Yet, I too am guilty of preferring to
Author: solantratrainingasoul
They say Spring sprung yesterday, but that Groundhog knew what was up when he turned back around and went to bed. It is drizzly and grey – the weather, my spirits and everything I have been watching and reading. (I just binge watched the entire first season of The Handmaid’s tale.) Now all I want
This was my first ever reading group and it was awesome. I read so many amazing things and had a wonderful time writing some of my thoughts. Having a community of people doing the same was fun, I was surprised and interested in the frequency of spontaneous overlaps. I reached the session target the week
Three pages in the soft hairs on my upper legs stood up, I knew then that this was going to be a wonderful book. After last weeks heavy read (even without the controversy it stirred) I proclaimed aloud that I wanted something a little lighter as my next selection. There I go again making quasi-public
aI heard in a YouTube video I was showing to my class that The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the only book that had made the narrator vomit I instantly thought hmm that is quite a reaction, I should read that! The Jungle is one of those rare gems written so well and with such
Ruby, By Cynthia Bond is the OneBook at my college this year. If you aren’t familiar with the concept let me explain. OneBook is a project where communities, Universities, colleges, and even cities, select one book to be read by members that year. Readers get the benefit of knowing others are reading along, it provides
It’s your turn. What to do when it’s your turn [and it’s always your turn] by Seth Godin, is one of those books, in my mind, that you can’t really read all in one go, or just once! It requires thought and internal processing. As I like to tell my student’s it is information intended
What Do I Say Next? Talking your way to business and social success By Susan RoAne. A few posts ago I shared that I was using this reading session to shake out the books from my bookshelves placed there with well meaning intentions, but unread. This book was one of them. I honestly can’t say
The keen observer, that is to say, anyone who possesses a better memory than I for specifics- may have noticed that A Room of One’s Own By Virginia Woolf, did not appear on my Summer reading list. It is the nature of ideas, the world, and particularly of books, to lead me curiously on many
“To the very young, to school teachers and also to those who compile textbooks about constitutional history, politics, and current affairs, the world is a more or less rational place…To those, on the other hand, with any experience of affairs, these assumptions are merely ludicrous.” pvii. So begins one of my favourite passages of the
