What are you reading?
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@Mary-Anna All good things! I find that there is always something I can do better than I’ve been doing it. Now I’m concentrating on breath, and coordinating breath to movement. Also working on posture, and making all movements flow from one to another. It’s almost like dancing.
@AdagioM @Mary-Anna I tried Tai Chi several times and passed out each time. I guess it is not for me.
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@Piano-Dad said in What are you reading?:
I have never read any of Ursula K. Le Guin, so I'm starting the Left Hand of Darkness.
I've had that one on my bedside table for a while. I read and admired The Dispossessed many years ago, and I've taught from her book on writing, Steering the Craft, but The Left Hand of Darkness is her most famous book, so I really want to read it and The Wizard of Earthsea.
Also, I've started taking Tai Chi and my teacher recommended her interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, so I just grabbed the ebook.
@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
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@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
an excusemotivation.@rustyfingers said in What are you reading?:
@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
an excusemotivation.Ooh! Good to know!
And it sounds like tai chi is not for you! I had that experience with karate, but so far tai chi is good.
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@rustyfingers said in What are you reading?:
@Mary-Anna @Piano-Dad #booksky #BannedBookSkyClub over on Blue Sky is reading The Left Hand of Darkness in June. I might use that as
an excusemotivation.Ooh! Good to know!
And it sounds like tai chi is not for you! I had that experience with karate, but so far tai chi is good.
Finished The Left Hand of Darkness in time to return it to the library. Slow start due to world building. It picked up half-way through. Use of anthropological artifacts throughout.
Starting Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong.
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I just read "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" by Carlo Cipolla. It's online (see link below) and it's a fast read.
An enjoyable and interesting read. I can't say I agree with his postulate that stupidity is built-in, but otherwise a clever essay. It does seem applicable to current events.
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Last week I got these preloved:
The Garden Room (1986) is a bit of a coffee table book which I've flicked right through to look at the photos for ideas. We'd love to add one on to the house.Today at £2.95 each...
The Complete Gardner (1994) seemed a very practical book with an excellent section on types& construction.
The OS Road Atlas (1990) is pure indulgence in these days of car satnav & phone maps. Ring roads and motorways may change but it has topographic detail that I love and is perfect for planning road trips.
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“The Always Already Absent Present”. — recent poetry by Anne Tardos
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“The Always Already Absent Present”. — recent poetry by Anne Tardos
@RealPlayer said in What are you reading?:
“The Always Already Absent Present”. — recent poetry by Anne Tardos
Looks interesting. 7 words in 7 lines. Guessing there are no rhymes.
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Fifty-One
Given the situation we find ourselves in
We often wonder how we got here
Those who claim that life is short
Must be either insatiable and or megalomaniacal
Or they have a skewed view of
Things which is more than understandable
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In the Library paying my fine today, my attention was caught by this
So I sat, read the dust jacket, intro, forward and afterward. Author picked a random day in US from 2013, found 10 youngsters had been killed in shootings (actually more if you count those who died some time after) and wrote about them.
Now I didn't borrow it (bit busy helping with DIY) , but it was interesting reading the gist:
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Sounds interesting. And sad.
Kirkus review:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gary-younge/another-day-in-the-death-of-america/
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I recently read Stephen King’s latest, Never Flinch. Now I’m rereading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series in preparation for his new book in the series that releases in early September. My reading these days tends to be on the very light side. There is enough heaviness in the world - I don’t need it in my make believe worlds, too.
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Legal documents. I have 4 of them to read the longest of which is 50 pages.
I don't have to ask questions about them (a step in the process) and sign them yet (they are drafts written by a FL firm) because the
FL firm and the NY firm had a meeting at the end of July the result of which was the NY firm has concerns about them, the result being these aren't the drafts I can sign anyway.I'm glad for the delay because it gives me more time to read what I have, then more time to prepare for scheduling the meeting with the FL attorney, and so extending the date when I'll have to sign documents in front of notary and two witnesses.
I guess I am lucky because my brother's ex-wife has been like an angel. I met her when she and my brother came to HI on a cruise for their honeymoon. My sister was very close to her and their daughter. My mother was very close to her, as well of course her granddaughter.
As an aside, their daughter decided they were trans and also to change their name and use they/them pronouns. My brother refers to them as, "my child" so as not to have to confront the reality of it all. Lol!
So, when my father died, it was my brother's ex-wife who insisted that my brother and cousin find me.
She knew perfectly well (from my sister) that my father and I were very close. My brother and my cousin didn't know my father and I were in contact.
She knew all the details of my father's decision not to change his will and to refuse to finalize a new draft will for 2 years because my father told her these details himself.
To make a long story short, she and I have become friends.
I trust her with my life meaning she'll have the legal power to make end of life medical decisions. She'll also be my trustee, etc.
I live in a 55+ community. We have a monthly newsletter. I guess it's more like a bulletin. This month's issue has an article about what it called, "elderly orphans."
It defined this term as describing those members of our community who have nobody to designate as having various legal powers.
This reassured me a lot. These documents are arcane (to me) and more complex than I expected them to be. You are, I'd like to say kind of, but in fact giving other people legal power involving your life.
The consensus is that it's better to have people you trust as you become elderly than not to have anyone.
I'm pretty sure that I was at high risk of becoming an "elderly orphan."
I won't be living with the same person I have been living with for 30 years, this will be the first time in my life that I've lived by myself (I can't wait!), and narcissistic abuse is isolating by its nature (not complaining, just being realistic).
This is not as fun as reading a Critical Legal Studies text in college but it is real life, and I'm finding it to be deeply satisfying.
