Day: September 17, 2015

Northern California

Morning Meditation

►Birds (414)
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- ►Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space (6)
- ►Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (4)
- ►Carter’s Our Endangered Values (5)
- ►Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (4)
- ►Dalai Lama’s The Universe in a Single Atom (8)
- ►Emerson’s Essays (10)
- ►Hagen’s Buddhism: Plain and Simple (3)
- ►Halifax’s The Fruitful Darkness (5)
- ►Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1)
- ►Hardy’s Return of the Native (2)
- ►Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (3)
- ►Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (4)
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- ►Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (10)
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- ►Kerouac’s On the Road (7)
- ►Kundera’s Unbearbable Lightness of Being (9)
- ►Le Guin’s No Time to Spare (2)
- ►Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (3)
- ►Maslow’s Religion Values & Peak-Experiences (3)
- ►Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard (4)
- ►May’s My Quest for Beauty (5)
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- ►May’s The Cry for Myth (4)
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- ►O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (2)
- ►Pellegrini’s The Unprejudiced Palate (2)
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- ►Pyle’s Sky Time in Gray’s River (3)
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