currently reading

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  Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times Stephanie Kaza

  Stephanie Kaza knits pages to spells unbounded by the minimizing of modernity and unravels the trauma of our exoticism of nature. How we see nature as so separate…

  "Once I heard a baby great horned owl fall out of its nest onto the roof of the meditation hall. The sharp screams of the parents careened overhead, penetrating the quiet stillness within. There could be no separation from the…"

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  Reverse Meditation: How to Use Your Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom Andrew Holecek

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  The Heart of Nonviolent Communication: 25 Keys To Shift From Separation To Connection Kristin K. Collier and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei

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  Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love Oren Jay Sofer

book reading library

A collection of everything I have read in the past:

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  Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse Kazu Haga April 07, 2026

  People talk about defying and opposing injustice but that merely only appears to be resistance to injustice. To transform our systems, what would it mean to not call…

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  The Alchemist Paulo Coelho March 13, 2026

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  Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer January 15, 2026

  This book really tied the loose ends of my eco-consciousness into a full tapestry and my mind-spirit is one with that of the gift…

  "For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it."

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  Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World Joanna Macy July 01, 2025

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  Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan Ryōkan trans. Kazuaki Tanahashi June 02, 2025

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  Most Intimate: A Zen Approach to Life's Challenges Pat Enkyo O'Hara May 18, 2025

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  Indra's Net, a Sonnet Sequence Hollis G. Zelinsky May 09, 2025

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  Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl May 09, 2025

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  Playground Richard Powers May 03, 2025

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  How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David Brooks April 11, 2025

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  Zen in the Art of Archery Eugen Herrigel March 27, 2025

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  The World Is Made of Stories David R. Loy March 10, 2025

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  To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist View of Animal Slaughter and Meat Eating Philip Kapleau December 29, 2024

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  My Year of Meats Ruth Ozeki December 22, 2024

  Ozeki always enamors me with her writing style, to quote her own words: she has a 'neither-here-nor-there-ness'. I feel as though My Year of Meats' genre perfectly fits…

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  On Fear Jiddu Krishnamurti December 21, 2024

  On Fear By Jiddu Krishnamurti is truly a munificent gift for anyone anywhere who fears anything.For a brief overview on Krishnamurti's On Fear, which…

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  Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke trans. Joanna Macy, Anita Barrows December 12, 2024

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  Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method Rebecca Li December 08, 2024

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  Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility James P. Carse November 06, 2024

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  Lack and Transcendence David R. Loy July 22, 2024

  If a book were a womb, I would be filled by David R. Loy's pages. One quote that I was perturbedly awakened by was Loy's observation of the condition of lack…

  "We experience this deep sense of lack as the feeling that “there is something wrong with me.” To the extent that we have a sense of autonomous self, we also have this sense of lack, but it manifests itself in…"

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  Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic Sandra Kahn, Paul R. Ehrlich, Robert M. Sapolsky May 24, 2024

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  The Wave Todd Strasser January 01, 1970

  I was so surprised this was inspired by a real incident. And after rereading it, I was both inspired and in terror for how…

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  Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose January 01, 1970