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a big new free happy unusual life
November 2009 
a big new free happy unusual life
Posted on Jun 24th, 2009
by 
tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
The last week of my life has been...turbulent. I can't even begin to describe it all, but it involved abandoned animals needing sanctuary, a thirteen year old who has never owned a pet caring for twenty animals and everyone lived through it, 8 hours of driving, my son's wedding, falling in love with his wife's family, chopping off my hair and finding this book. It is one of the books I would take to a desert island, or a dessert island for that matter. With cherries on top. I want all of you to go read it right now please.
Nina Wise teaches improv, which is to say, life, and I am in love with this book and I am not a self-help book kinda person but this is in a different realm. Did I mention that you should go read it right now? Hurry up.
Here's some quotes:
from Jack Kornfield's foreword: "I've been told the story of a six year old girl who asked her mother where she was going one afternoon. The mother replied that she was headed for the university to teach her students how to draw and paint. 'You mean they've forgotten?' her daugher asked, amazed."
and this one, from the author, might be my mission statement if I had such a thing: "We can, together, take this moment in human history to wake up to who we already know ourselves to be: a free people dedicated to a sane and just world made up of individuals who celebrate their common humanity and this planet of indescribable beauty through song and dance, poetry, and care for all sentient beings."
This book and me, we're getting married.
Now go read.
Access: Public
Thank you for the book recommendation. I just checked to see if it's available on Kindle and it is! Whoohoo! I'll start reading it the moment I'm finished with my current book.
Laurie, I so admire your restraint! I never have less than three books going at once and I'm currently reading The Bardo of Waking Life by Richard Grossinger, a lovely cookbook called Washoku, and a book called Living Large in Small Spaces in addition to the book I mentioned above (which I'm now selectively rereading). All lovely books and all so different that somehow I think reading them all at once keeps me balanced.
Tink - No restraint here. My brain–the cog that turns my wheels–would come to a screetching halt if I had three books going at once. I'm that most amazing NON multi-tasker on the planet! I do ONE that at a time extremely well. My heart remains joyful and my mind stays clutter-free. Add anything into the mix and it turns to goop - pure and simple.
I read “Living Large in Small Spaces,” you are going to love it! In our home my husband (amazing cook) reads the cookbooks. I'll tell him about “Wasoku.” I'll have to check out “The Bardoo of Waking Life.”
been scatting lately? no, not the farland kind. the jazzy kind. I have. while bicycling. it's amazing. thanks for reintroducing me to this crazy, free, happy, unusual book!
I love your book recommendations!
xxo
~d
ps— and I love you!