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“He who knows he has enough is rich.”

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu

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This year has been a wacky one, to say the least. In the midst of turmoil, I’ve tried to provide myself with a “spiritual roll-cage” to stay alive and reasonably well. A big piece of that has been reading books to nourish the soul. I bought my particular copy of the Tao Te Ching in high school, read it once, and sort of forgot about it. If any year could use some ancient wisdom, it was this one. So, I pulled it off the book shelf, grabbed a pen for marginalia, and went to work over the course of several […]

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12/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:69 |

Transforming the Mundane to the Magical

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

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While I was not a Bourdain mega-fan prior to his death, I did always appreciate and respect him as someone striving to live an authentic life. He seemed to take a lot of joy out of wandering, and to have little patience for artifice. I like that. Another of his goals seems to have been to get people to veer off of their normally trodden paths and to try something new, just to see what was out there. Even though we’re very different kinds of men, I like to think we had those things in common. I picked up this […]

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12/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:68 |

How to Create Lasting Personal and Social Transformation

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane

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As an attorney, one of the most fun things I get to do is put on my “Attorney at Law” persona and advocate on behalf of people being taken advantage of. I get to slap a state bar number at the end of a letter and get people’s attention. Because of that, I think there’s an assumption that I like to fight. In addition to being an attorney, I’m also a mediator, aka “peacemaker”. As a mediator, I try to step into the lives of strangers in conflict and help them find a way out. Also relevant – a lot […]

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12/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:67 |

“Happiness? He wasn’t even sure what that meant.”

Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami

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Sometimes a year feels fast, and sometimes a year feels slow. Sometimes a year feels like both! That’s been my year with Murakami. It feels like he’s always been a favorite author of mine, but when I look back, I hadn’t read a word of his until early this year. Now I average a Murakami book every couple of months.  This particular book is different than the previous works I’ve read simply because it’s not a novel. It’s a collection of seven stories about, you guessed it, men without women. Or, maybe, men with too many women. Or too many […]

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11/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

A Graceful Exit from the Treadmill

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

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In my professional life, I have been pulled strongly in two directions. One on hand, I’m like a running back. I’m a go-getter. I love to put my head down, get my legs pumping, and run until we win or I puke. Or both. A team player. Leave it on the field. Etc. That’s translated into a law degree, 80-hour workweeks, and everything else you’d expect. On the other hand, I’m also a hippie by nature. I enjoy nature walks, yoga, meditation, poetry, and falling into a vegetative state with guitar in my hands. My inability to reconcile these real […]

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11/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:65 |

“Our purpose is to present the most humane, most spiritual, most moral, most communal model of life for a world in chaos around us.”

How to Live: What the Rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning, and Community by Judith Valente

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If you like the quote in the title of this review, you’ll like this book. The words spoken by Sister Joan Chittister contain the kind of wisdom you’ll find throughout this short and mind-blowing book. While How to Live draws much of its wisdom from The Rule of St. Benedict and the monks and nuns who follow his Rule, the book is useful for anyone looking to lead a balanced life of service, rest, gratitude, and community. My only complaint about this book is that I checked it our from the library, so I couldn’t mark it up.  The author of […]

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10/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:64 |

Together We’ll Fight the Long Defeat

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

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My friends often roll their eyes when I hesitate to embrace anything that’s popular. It’s true that I’m wary of popular things. It’s not because I’m a hipster (I’m not – I live in the suburbs and I like Bud Light and Taco Bell). I think the reason I balk at popular things is because I’m afraid of getting swept up in something that I’ll later regret. It’s better to test things on their own merit than to sign my name to something that sours. So, when my friends recommended I read this bestselling popular book, I internally balked. The […]

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10/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:63 |

More Human Than Human

X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost

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I’ve been on a late oughts X-Force kick, lately. That run has been my comic book introduction to X-23, aka Laura. (If you’ve seen the movie Logan, Laura is the lil’ Wolverine. That was my first encounter with the character.) The Laura character is terrifying and hilarious in X-Force. She’s so efficiently brutal that you always wonder whether she’s a judgment call away from hacking into pieces a character you like. Kind of weird vibe for a teammate. She’s funny in the way Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax is funny – a deadly fish out of water. The character is […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:62 |


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