Near Enchanted Mesa the breeze breathes
through the pine trees.
Many spend forty days, forty nights
or more
in the wilderness
seeking the centered peace I feel
right here, right now.
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- The Concrete Blonde
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Hostage
- The Black Ice
- Guilt
- For the Sake of Elena
- The Dog Stars
- A Suitable Vengeance
- Well-Schooled in Murder
- Line of Fire
- Payment in Blood
- Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
- On the Ridge Between Life and Death
- A Great Deliverance
- Angle of Repose
- Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
- The Black Box
- The Brass Verdict
- Echo Park
- The Closers
- The Narrows
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- Lost Light
- City of Bones
- A Darkness More than Night
- Rebecca
- Angels Flight
- Let the Great World Spin
- Last Words
- Taken
- The Patron Saint of Liars
- Mozart's Last Aria
- The Sentry
- The First Rule
- Heartburn
- The Forgotten Man
- Mockingjay
- Catching Fire
- The Hunger Ganes
- Afterwards: A Novel
- Sister: A Novel
- The Last Detective: A Novel
- Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
- The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer From the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
- Snake Skin
- L.A. Requiem
- Chasing Darkness
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Rain of Gold
- Free Fall
- The Debba
- The Monkey's Raincoat
- Lullaby Town
- Stalking the Angel
- State of Wonder
- The Hunter
- Beautiful Software
- Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
- A Reliable Wife
- The Chalk Girl (A Mallory Novel)
- My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
- The Double Bind
- Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
- The Fifth Witness
- The Confession
- The Christmas Train
- Deja Dead
- Don't Miss Your Life: Find More Joy and Fulfillment Now
- The Zookeepers Wife: A War Story
- The Red Garden
- Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
- Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
- Bossypants
- A Drop of the Hard Stuff
- The Forgotten Garden
- How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free
- Life
- Blindman's Bluff
- The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
- The Bug
- A Plague of Secrets
- Mystery: An Alex Delaware Novel
- Damage
- Committed: A Love Story
- Out Stealing Horses
- Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss And Change Into Gift and Opportunity
- Cutting for Stone
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
- The Night Calls
- Tinkers
- Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps
- Room
- Early Autumn
- Port Mortuary
- The Seige
- The Last Lie
- A Christmas Journey
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
- The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Reversal
- Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point
- Younger Next Year for Women
- China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
- If You Want to Write
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
- Deception
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
- The Not So Big Life
- Gone Tomorrow
- The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands
- The Help
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
- How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Olive Kitteridge
- Breakfast with Buddha
- Awake at Work
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
About Me
- Lynn
- I am a cleverly disguised adventuress discovering life each day by keeping my eyes open and laughing a lot. I am trying to find new music I like, but still fall back on the old standards by Cohen, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, et al. By day I type e-mails, try to respect others and their ideas, and attempt to think ahead. By night I succumb to my addiction to Words with Friends and read lots of fiction and books about how to be more mindful. On weekends I go on urban and mountain hikes in my Tilley hat or a reasonable facsimile since I've now lost the Tilley (see photo). I only post a blog when I think it might be interesting to others – you will probably be glad to know that this is not a journal recording my daily bodily functions or trivial ponderings.
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4 comments:
I can smell the pines from here!
:-)
I know the feeling :)
I'm glad we share that...
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