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kathy whilden
Sister,daughter, Mother, grandmother,friend, neighbor, Part time Hospital chaplain, Soto Zen Priest, (Suzuki Roshi Lineage)
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books I've read lately
TRY TO TELL THE STORY (memoir) David Thomson
THE SNOW GEESE (travel and nature) William Fiennes
THE TWIN (Dutch novel) Gerbrand Bakker
MEMOIRS OF MARIPOSA (memoir) Bix Whitcomb
EACH MOMENT IS THE UNIVERSE (Buddhist) Dainin Katagiri
THE MEN IN MY LIFE (essays) James D. Houston
A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL (disaster studies) Rebecca Solnit
THE OLD CAPE MAGIC (novel) Richard Russo
BROOKLYN (novel) Calm Toibin
ON MOVING (essays) Louise DeSalva
ABIGAIL AND JOHN (history) Edith Gelles
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG (Fiction, French) Muriel Barbery
APPLES AND ORANGES (memoir) Marie Brenner
NO MORE WORDS (memoir) Reeve Lindberg
BUDDHISM WITHOUT BELIEFS Stephen Batchelor
STREET LAWYER (mystery) John Grisham
OUT OF AFRICA (memoir) Isak Dinesen
NETHERLAND (novel) Joseph O'Neill
DARK LADY (mystery) Robert North Patterson
I LOVE A SOLDIER (memoir) Lily Burana
JEFF IN VENICE (fiction) Goeff Dyer
MAKE BELIEVE (essays) Diana Athill
COOP (essays) Michael Perry
SECRET SON (fiction) Laila Lalami
RIVERS OF SHADOW (biography) Rebecca Solnik
MRS ASTER REGRETS (jounalism) Meryl Gordon
A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST (essays) Rebecca Solnit
A LIFE WORTH LIVING (medical ethics) Robert Martenson
LEAVING MUM AND PUP (memoir) Christopher Buckley
LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF DEATH (Buddhism) Larry Rosenberg
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Sunny day at last. Sat at the park at noon and watched the high school guys gather with their loud trucks, cell phones and punching each other in the arms. Milling around talking with each other. Such restless energy.
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