"A person is a point of view. Every person you meet is a creative artist who takes the events of life and, over time, creates a very personal way of seeing the world."
David Brooks from his book: How to Know a Person
Thoughts: How could this not be so?? We can only interpret what we see from our own experience, what we are taught, what we put our attention on, what we observe and what we read. I think one of the biggest impacts to expanding our point of view comes from reading; reading anything that is beyond our experience and exposes us to other peoples experiences and perspectives.
Reading always seemed to me to be a leisure activity. In 2024 I am going to rewrite this 66 year old perspective and make reading a priority activity!
"People don't see the world with their eyes; they see it with their entire life."
"Each person actively constructs their own perception of reality."
David Brooks
I found this booklist of "Books everyone should read at least once" (from Katie Couric Wake-Up Call newsletter)
I've read about a quarter of the books on it already and agree with them being on this list so I'm adding the entire list to the bookclub books and random recommended reads from friends and other sources.
I do plan to do other things occasionally, but I am looking forward to changing my perspective
1. Heartwood: The art of living with the End in Mind by Barbara Becker
2. The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank Bruni
3. All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
7. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
8. After This: When Life is Over, Where do we Go? By Claire Bidwell Smith
9. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
10. We Should Not be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe
11. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams
12. Still Life by Sarah Winman
13. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Tried to read once but didn't get too far...)
14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
15. Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe by Dawn Tripp
16. Waking up White: Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
17. The Mother of All Dilemmas: Dreams of Motherhood and the Internship that Changed Everything by Kathleen Guthrie Woods
18. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Read this, now reading Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe to find out more about how the opioid crisis came about)
19. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
20. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff
21. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (listened to this book on cd Walkman while pruning orchards about 20 years ago, over and over again. Maybe I will plan a long drive just to listen to it again)
22. Option B: Facing Adversity: Building Resilience and Finding Joy, by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
23. Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
24. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
25. The Lincoln Highway By Amor Towles
26. Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
27. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
28. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
29. Finding Me by Viola Davis
30. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
31. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
32. The Push by Ashley Audrain
33. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
34. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson
35. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivey League by Jeff Hobbs
36.Women Talking by Miriam Toews
37. Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D.
Peace, Health and New Worlds to all
Jeanne
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