i love this!!
reading is the best, trying to read it all read it often and be humble -- the more ya know the more ya know ya dont know, and the more interesting and complex things become
reading:
the tipping point: how little things can make a big difference -- malcolm gladwell (interesting dig into social psychology, broadly applicable and useful when considering how things get passed around in society, don't always vibe with author's perspective or lack of analysis in his examples but its interesting)
just read:
lakota woman -- mary crow dog
black elk speaks as told by john g neihardt -- john g neihardt
invisible cities -- italo calvino (such a treat for exercising the imagination)
indian givers -- jack weatherford
10th of december -- george saunders
how the irish saved civilization -- thomas cahill
genghis khan and the making of the modern world -- jack weatherford (highly recommend so interesting !! and as a result of his research and publishing of this book he won mongolia's highest honor -- the order of the polar star [ which upon further investigation looks like they straight up created for him in a national attempt to support understanding of mongolian culture] for detailing a history of the country that has been repressed by foreign dominance for so long)
up next (to choose from):
the power -- naomi alderman
empire of the summer moon -- s. c. gwynne
mitakuye oyasin "we are all related" -- dr. a. c. ross
the state of native america: genocide, colonization and resistance -- various authors
iroquois diplomacy on the early american frontier -- timothy j shannon
i love books, goddamnit !!!
more than the book itself, i'm really enjoying being recently in love with reading again (after a break post-shove-it-down-your-throat-school-reading) and trying self-guided curriculum meanderings across topics... anyone else on this path?
on a semi-tangent beyond books but concerning learning and reading, i just opened my first solo art show and created a little online mini-encyclopedia i'd love to share here if people are looking at some topics to dive into reading/learning about! the show revolves around fantasy and escapism and contemplating how/when/why we engage in fantasy to disengage in our surrounding realities, and how we (the royal We) can (and historically have) used fantastic ideals to cross over and transform our realities (ie. places like the slabs). the website is at
http://fantasy-spaces.info and i'd be honored if folks checked it out -- i'm not too tech savy but my goal is to get it editable by anyone (who keeps it respectful! and who isn't a bot) so resources can be added to the further material section of each topic, so folks can immediately watch a cool movie on a topic they're curious about, insert a suggestion for a related thing, read more papers, go to events around it, etc. etc.. If this all sounds wildly confusing, sorry it probably is, but if you check out the website i think it'll be clear. topics covered in light depth (with resources for continued learning) range from afrofuturism and science-fiction to land-based occupations and micronations to biohacking to drag to drugs to meditation to space colonization to transformation festivals, and more. i'd really love any feedback if anyone checks it out!!
keep reading keep learning keep questioning !!!
