Maybe Tomorrow

I read Pryor’s books while I was a consultant at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. His generosity and outreach as a teacher and educator takes us on a journey with him as he explores Aboriginal culture, customs, kinship and connection to the wider world while also sharing his own life story. Pryor does this with his wife, writer/photographer, Meme McDonald. Her own books are also worth reading. Put Your Whole Self In was the first of McDonald’s books that I read.

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

I was fortunate to meet Plumwood at the Two Fires Festival of Arts and Activism in Braidwood near Canberra a year before she died. She was providing festival goers with intimate walks on he own wildlands, a bush paradise. Bereft on learning of her death, I sought out her works and how seminal they are.

A Place of My Own

The blue lit core of this book invites creation. I read it at a time when I was hankering to build my own place of one’s own.

Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

Divine writing on nature. His workshops are just as engaging as his books.

Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

A recommendation from the Abstract Wild reading list, this book is about Doug Peacock, a Vietnam Veteran who finds peace within himself through contact with the grizzly bears in whose presence helps to banish his inner demons.

Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

I heard about Palmer when I was at Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat in the US. He’s a deep thinker and practitioner in connecting people to their passion work and his books are a joy to read.