Hello again, beautiful Cosmos community! I’m looking for April reading suggestions for our “What We’re Reading” feature in the weekly newsletter. Share your picks here to be included!
I’m reading Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume 1—just getting started (early day in NYC folk scene); but enjoying Dylan’s memories and vivid evocations of people, places, and events so far…
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Hello Skye, are you doing a Book Rec topic for May?
I hope you can send email invitations every month…thanks!
How about we read and discuss this book over summer?
@skyepratt and @care_save
I will read this book, definitely, eventually. I cannot afford to buy books, I get most every one of them from the library, or given to me, which is to me, one of the best examples of humans supporting each other, whether we have lots of money or almost none. It does intrigue me, for sure, but…as with almost every book I read, it seems to be (could be wrong here) too focused on the human species as though all the rest of the beings and ecosystems are backgroundand almost optional, not so relevent to creating a more intelligent and kindly way of co-existing on this planet we did not create and don’t include in most of our conceiving of better worlds .
The other day a person I respect actually said that our (American) form of deocracy came almost direectly from the Greek model. In fact, it came from an indigenous Turtle Island model. Many of the original peoples of the Americas were living far closer to a more than human “democracy” where the needs and gifts of the “others” (minerals, waters, lands, weathers, animals, plants, mysteries, ) are taken seriously into account…because human flourishing depends on them! What is democracy if it does not include “all our relations”?
Btw, I just finished reading: How Flowers Made Our World…beautiful, humbling, inspiring. (David George Haskell)
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