![]() ![]() This book is part of James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read. “Not fare well, But fare forward, voyagers.” “We had the experience but missed the meaning” “Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure” “The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.” “Had they deceived us Or deceived themselves?” ![]() “Distracted from distraction by distraction” These poems serve as a reminder of our time and place in the world. ![]() The memories that these poems invoked were so visceral that I could not only imagine the visual aspects but also the smells, being fully transported in the moment. On YouTube, there is an old scratchy recording of TS Eliot reading these poems, and it was such a unique experience, taking the time to slow down and allowing the imagery to come to mind as these poems were read. The Four Quartets is a series of poems written in 1943 by T.S. ![]()
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As she grows resentful and bored of her life as a stay-at-home mom and farmer’s wife, she decides on an act of self-destruction, only to be stopped in her tracks by an fantastic sight: thousands upon thousands of monarch butterflies are hanging from the trees at the top of the High Road trail. When she was seventeen and pregnant, her shotgun marriage to Cub Turnbow seemed to cement her future. Desperate to do something to sabotage the marriage she is trapped in, Dellarobia sees adultery as a means by which to express her unhappiness. The novel begins as Dellarobia strides up the family’s mountain path to meet up with a man she plans to sleep with. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark. ![]() ![]() A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz … something is happening. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.īut there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.Īnd, perhaps, for themselves. When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. ![]() The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. ![]() By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. ![]() |