Wisdom and the Senses: The Way of Creativity

Of course I had to search out Erikson’s writing after reading A Walk on the Beach (see Anderson). What an extraordinary woman Joan Erikson was. She deserves to be better known for her ideas and practice, like her famous husband.

Women Who Run with the Wolves

I read this on a train going to somewhere and, coupled with Allende’s House of Spirits, it lit me from within in its language and call to us to run with our own wild. I re-read I recently and it was just as potent.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Eight new stories from a writer of such emotional intelligence and maturity.

Nature

His poetry is transcendent and incandescent.

The Solace of Open Spaces Islands

I think it was via my reading of Annie Dillard that I found Ehrlich. She embraces a similar love of wild spaces and the natural world. Her writing is revelatory and a joy to read.

Zeitoun

I found Zeitoun at Imprints Bookshop in Adelaide and drove straight home to read it. Eggers writing is so amazingly good, his power of observation and imagination so astute that I hope he doesn’t ever stop writing. I sought out everything else by Eggers, which is pretty substantial when you start looking. When I wrote to him about speaking at an event, he was good enough to reply himself. And now I find myself living in the same place as him and his family – Sausalito.