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• BOOK REVIEW: Two Saints by Arun Shourie

  

  Two Saints: Speculations Around and About Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi by Arun Shourie My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page I suspect this book i... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Fungi: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas P. Money

  

  Fungi: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas P. Money My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page Bear with me. Fungi might sound like the most brutally boring topic... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: How to Love a Country by Richard Blanco

  

  How to Love a Country by Richard Blanco My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page Out March 26, 2019 This book takes one on a roller coaster ride of insight into the... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Gravity’s Conspirator

  

  trunk bent at a right angle and leaning to the south yet, that tree shows no struggle every second - day and night gravity summons it to the ground it's survive... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Unfortunate Circumstance

  

  some will speak of loneliness like a knife tip stuck in bone some will tell their fever dreams, that summer they had no home some have never walked barefoot... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Milkman by Anna Burns

  

  Milkman by Anna Burns My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This quirky novel is about a girl struggling to stay out of the limelight in a place where a... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: William Blake Ed. by J. Bronowski

  William Blake: A Selection of Poems and Letters by Jacob Bronowski My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a selection of poems and letters by William Blake... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Ed. by B.K.S. Iyengar

  

  Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali by B.K.S. Iyengar My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page The "Yoga Sutras" are 196 aphorisms about yoga that were... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Budapest

  

  I know you best by the gray of your winters when road salt coats the sidewalks and a witch of wind rides down the Danube whistling around pedestrians on your... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• My Year of Discovering How Weird the Mind Gets, Pt. II [the Tank]

  This is the second installment in my series of posts examining experiences with altered states of consciousness. This month I visited a float tank, what would... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Consciousness

  

  it's a lighthouse in the wilderness shining a spray of consciousness over all that is surveyed experiencing the world through a window framed by this meat... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Ocean of Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal

  

  The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a geographic and historical... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Hypnotism for Beginners by B.V. Pattabhi Ram

  

  Hypnotism for Beginners: Easy Techniques to Practice Hypnotism by B.V. Pattabhi Ram My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page Dr. Pattabhi Ram provides a concise and... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Prussian Nights by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  

  Prussian Nights: A Poem by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This long-form narrative poem tells a tale of inhumanity in the Soviet... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Literary Classics That Could Have Used an Editor

  

  I've got nothing against long novels. Some of my best friends are long novels. Sometimes a book either needs to be long, or - at least - manages to be a joy to... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2019 CULTURE

• BOOK REVIEW: Behave by Robert Sapolsky

  

  Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This book examines the role of biology in the... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Hanoi

  

  of egg coffee and banh mi to rocky islands in the sea tiny, tidy market stalls to the mammoth shopping malls once a town in ruin and rubble I saw not an ounce o... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Stained Glass, The Minor Basilica

  This entry was posted in Philippines, photographs, Photos, pictures, Tourism, travel and tagged church, Manila, Philippines, photographs, photos, pictures, The... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Heart’s Necessities by Jane Tyson Clement

  

  The Heart's Necessities: Life in Poetry by Jane Tyson Clement My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page At its heart, this is a collection of the poems of Jane Tyson... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Dark River

  

  sitting beside the dark river watching the inky water flow though balmy, i feel a shiver abyss, but for a moon lit glow in the rippling liquid metal aside... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL