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A 2014 Reading List
We circulated a flash card around friends gathered to celebrate the start of 2014 and each one contributed the name of a book that you should add to your reading list soon. Here they are, in no particular order.
- Zami – Audre Lorde
- The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
- Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff – Christopher Moore
- The Spirit of our Whaling Ancestors – Charlotte Coté
- Floodlines: Resistance in New Orleans – Jordan Flaherty
- Callings – Gregory Levoy
- Xenogenesis (Lilith’s Brood trilogy) – Octavia Butler
- The City & the City РChina Mi̩ville
- Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
- Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Moth – Catherine Burns
- Jane and the Whales – Andrea Routley
- Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway (my pick  – no special reason, good fiction that made me very happy at the end)
- Sub Rosa – Amber Dawn
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Are you my Mother? – Alison Bechdel
I’ve read six of these, and liked them all, which bodes well for the rest of them.
Walking
Not policy related, but I don’t write free form anything ever, so this is a rare occurrence that is going on the blog. PS: Work does not necessarily mean paid work. Osprey courtesy Sergey Yeliseev’s Flickr Stream used under a creative commons licence because the osprey is on my top 5 list of favourite birds and I did see one eating a rabbit on my walk back from work once.
Walking
I wish I worked like I walk
One foot in front of another
A steady, fast pace
Direct, seeking straight lines
Diagonals
Obstacles gone around or over
But always pausing to smile at the rabbits
Or to wonder when that osprey’s going to make my day
I wish I worked like I walk
Anticipating every light
Speeding up or slowing down
Observing every car that doesn’t see me
Shaking to a song that moves
But the walk continues
I wish I worked like I walk
Rain or shine, only the clothes and accessories change
The pace is still steady
A destination awaits
I know why I walk
The path is good and the end is clear.
and maybe that’s why
I don’t work like I walk…