Good day to you, wherever you are in the world! Books This month I overhauled my life: moved to a new state, started a new job, ended a relationship, and began sharing space in a house with my brother. Consequently, my regular reading time was devoted to other activities. I did, however, find time to … More Get Lit – Best of August 2024
Hi everyone. Hope you’re staying hydrated. In anticipation of the school year, I have been reading a lot of “kid lit”. The pervasive theme is maturity, or a variation of it. Often, characters embark on a journey (sometimes physical, sometimes emotional) that leads to change. They assume greater responsibility, make tough choices, and ultimately discover who … More Get Lit – Best of July 2024
Hello to you, wherever you are in the world! Books The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Marc Comer. The title is a mouthful, but the book was an easy to read collection of wisdom gleaned from Jesus and His teachings. … More Get Lit – Best of June 2024
Goodness and greetings, friends. Books I once had a professor who witnessed the death of a language. He attended the funeral of a tribal elder, the last one who spoke the native tongue. The idea of losing something as profound as language still haunts me. And so, I have a great appreciation for Hebrew, a … More Get Lit – Best of May 2024
The weather has been fun recently, hasn’t it? Books Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safan Foer was a quirky epistolary that captured the relationship between an American-Jewish tourist and the Ukrainian tour guide who was helping him discover/uncover his family roots. It was violent and vulgar and vulnerable. I enjoyed it immensely and can imagine Tarantino making it into a … More Get Lit – Best of April 2024
Hi friends! Books I’ve been on a reading rampage. Hello, Beautiful – Man can only see himself through the eyes of others. His goodness and his unworthiness only exist because of those around him. William Waters, the protagonist in Ann Napolitano’s novel Hello, Beautiful, is never truly seen—not by his parents, nor by Julia, his … More Get Lit – Best of March 2024
Let’s get lit! Books Seth Godin always impresses and his book This is Marketing is another game-changer. Godin asks probing questions and demands a reckoning of values. It’s not about the money, he argues. There’s a story behind everything. We have to figure out what story we are telling. And why. And who we are aligning ourselves … More Get Lit – Best of February 2024
In his book, This is Marketing, author and innovator Seth Godin writes, “When we find the empathy to say, ‘I’m sorry, this isn’t for you…’ then we also find the freedom to do work that matters,” (101). While some might try to discredit this statement as irrelevant for anyone other than marketers, I’d posit that … More Trade Schools: A Last Bastion of Hope
Books Haruki Murakami is a prolific writer of magical realism – which is not generally my thing. However, that did not stop me from devouring Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles. Both were fantastic and included a myriad of musical references (Murakami owned a jazz club in Japan, so the soundtracks are an integral part of each story). I loved … More Get Lit – Best of January 2024
In her seminal treatise Reader, Come Home; The Reading Brain in a Digital World, writer and educator Maryann Wolf delineates the differences between book reading and screen reading. She describes “the perspective-taking dimension of deep reading,” and highlights the “capacity to be transported from whatever our present realities are to an internal place where we … More Walk a Mile in Her Shoes: Why Octavia Butler Matters in 2024
Find the balance. 