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John Trudell

July 7, 2019 by anisa Leave a Comment

Well, it is Saturday evening and I’ve just finished some work. When I work, which is mostly online, I listen to lots of news, interviews, podcasts or watch movies. Tonight, this video was recommended as I watched YouTube. Now I recommend it to you.

If we respect our Creator, we have a responsibility to recognize our intelligence and use it as clearly and coherently as we possibly can. Otherwise, we’re just pretending, we’re just being delusional and rationalizing and justifying and just telling ourselves a big lie…”
~John Trudell

Summer Reading

June 25, 2019 by anisa Leave a Comment

Today I will get back to my reading list. My reading apps are a mess (and my home screen is “stressful,” according to Maya), but here’s what I’ve gathered from them anyway—and from my nightstand.

Kindle

The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Love War Stories, Yvelisse Rodriguez
Ultralight The Zen Habits Guide to Traveling Light & Living Light, Leo Babauta

Libby

There There, Tommy Orange
Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

Cloud Library

The Case Against Sugar, Gary Taubes
Scribbled in the Dark, Charles Simic

Hard Copy

Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo (who has just been named our first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate)
Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
I wanted to read a novel by a Peruvian author and came across this Llosa book, but it is so dense and rambling at 600 pages, I’m not sure I will finish it (I am barely on page 75). Why hasn’t this been made into a movie?
I also just ordered Tortured Barrio Songs by Reyes Cardenas

Evernote | Things I’ve saved to read

Joy Harjo

June 22, 2019 by anisa Leave a Comment

It is Saturday morning, and the most important thing you can watch right now is Joy Harjo, who was named the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate last week. Harjo says that humanizing and healing will be her aims as Poet Laureate—“a healing of people speaking to each other, with each other.”