What a splendid year for reading! I had a superabundance of favorites. It was tough to choose, but here are my 16 favorite books for 2024.
This week, my dear friend SB mentioned these two lines from Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day:
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
– Mary Oliver
I instantly recognized this query as one threading through my thoughts over recent months—with a twist.
I was introduced to this book via Ezra Klein’s podcast interview with the author Rhaina Cohen, an especially engaging episode because Ezra was passionately interested in the topic!
This is such a beautiful forgiveness practice!
A Hawaiian practice for forgiveness or reconciliation, it works outside the bounds of imagination or understanding, in a realm of love and illumination.
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Scott Ressler, a film producer at National Geographic, and I hosted a gathering called Digital Mindfulness: A Conversation on Balance.
My primary takeaway? I LOVED IT!
I’ve read and listened to a lot on this topic. This was the first conversation I’ve heard within a spiritual context; specifically that of our loving Buddhist sangha at The Center for Mindful Living.
It was so sweet! And so real and resonant.