musings

Off the page:

Andrea Gibson collections; Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer; Great House, Nicole Krauss; Rebel Girl, Kathleen Hanna; In Memory’s Kitchen-A Legacy from the Women of Terezin; Instructions for a Heat Wave, Maggie O’Farrell; On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder; Chasing The Dime, Michael Connelly; City of Bones, Michael Connelly; A Darkness More Than Night, Michael Connelly; Suite Francois, Irene Nevirovsky; On Evolutionary Power, Julia B. Colwell; The Postcard, Anne Berest; Roald Dahl; A Wreath For Emmett Till, Marilyn Nelson; Enough, Cassidy Hutchinson; Griffin and Sabine, Nick Bantock; H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald; Angel’s Flight, Michael Connelly; Trunk Music, Michael Connelly; Eternal, Lisa Scottoline; The Women, Kristin Hannah; A Psalm for the Wild Build, Becky Chambers; One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson; 44 Scotland Street, A. McCall Smith; The Highland Witch, Susan Fletcher; Arthur, Mikael Lindword; The Flight Portfolio, Julie Orringer; The Lewis Trilogy (The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man, The Chessman), Peter May; The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlieben; The One Hundred Nights of Hero, Isabel Greenberg; Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn; The Path to Tranquility, Dalai Lama; Goldenrod, Maggie Smith; The Quiet Music of Gently Fally Snow, Jackie Morris; Haiku-The Poetry of Nature, David Cobb; Every Atom, Erin Coughlin Holliwell; Fresh Water for Flowers, Valerie Perrin; The Isolation Journals, Suleika Jaouad; A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, Katie Farris; Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky; The Arachne Archives, Freya Rohn; wild spirit, soft heart; butterfies rising; What you have heard is true, Carolyn Forche; Beluga, a farewell to whales, Pierre Beland; Chiyo-ni, Patricia Donegan ed.; Beluga Days, Nancy Lord; Still Life, Louise Penny; Dalva, Jim Harrison; Black Ice, Michael Connelly, Winter in the Blood, James Welch; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell; Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline; I Am I Am, I Am and After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell; Be/Hold A Friendship book, Shira Erlichman; Fatal Grace, Louise Penny; Three, Valerie Perrin; Substack Blog, Patti Smith; Frederick, Leo Leonni; Jimmy’s Blues, James Baldwin; How to be perfect, Ron Padgett; Oyster boy, Tim Burton; Breathing on Your Own, Richard Kehl, ed.; Anodyne, Khadijah Queen; The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle; Begin Again, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.; Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems of Wanda Colemen; Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Prose and Letters, Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, Editors; Masha Gessen, The New Yorker; Elizabeth Bishop a Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall ; Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky; The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt; Becoming Earth by Eva Saulitis; The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde; One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan by Ryokan, trans. John Stevens

Off the screen:

Slow Horses, Death In Paradise, Squid Game, Shetland, The Fall, Poirot, Wicked, Dinner in America, Poor Things, LOTR, Star Trek, Tick Tick Bomb, The Devil Wears Prada, Pinocchio, Matilda, Quiz Show, Daisy Jones and the Six, The Borgias; YouTube vlogs of van conversions; Madam Secretary; The Handmaid’s Tale; Bohemian Rhapsody; Game of Thrones; Tolkien; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; The Rachel Maddow Show

In the air:

KUVO 89.3FM, Queen, Lana Del Ray, Billy Strings, Dogs barking (lots of barking), Jazz-various, Molly Tuttle, Jon Batiste, Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker; Thunder; Bela Fleck, the Flecktones, and the Colorado Symphony; Billie Holiday; Imagine Dragons; Green Day; Patti Smith; hummingbirds’ trill; KBCO 97.3FM; IZ; Willie K; squirrels’ chirp