Lisa Mayo Murphy
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March 2012
God's Singers: A poet is one of God's singers. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
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Loved this book. It is one of those works that showed up at just the right time. I'm a natural pilgrim and traveler, so I wondered what Phil Cousineau would have to teach me that I was not already doing, either instinctively or by experience. Never f ...more | |
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Expertly written biography. It is painstaking in detail but never dry, never boring. The deductions of VG's motivations and mindsets were absolutely brilliant. This bio takes the mystique out of VG. But I don't miss the mystique. I prefer the humanit ...more | |
"I've never read a book so thoroughly detailed. At times it felt like a day-by-day account of his 37 years. The book establishes early on that Van Gogh was at best "quirky" and at worst had a few disorders, but hey, who doesn't. I'm not a psychologist"
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Expertly written biography. It is painstaking in detail but never dry, never boring. The deductions of VG's motivations and mindsets were absolutely brilliant. This bio takes the mystique out of VG. But I don't miss the mystique. I prefer the humanit ...more | |
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I love memoir, history, new layers of perspective, and this book had all those things. It was a delightful read. She wonderfully laced her experience with fabric arts into the history of string, fabric, clothes making. Once again, a woman bringing to ...more | |
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The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites Our Visionary Powers
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simple, short, but profound. Profound enough that it took me 2 years to read! Started in January 2022 and finished in January 2024. I enjoyed every page, but I'd have to bite off a bit and chew chew chew, swallow and digest, before I could bite off s ...more | |
Lisa wants to read 12 books in the 2024 Reading Challenge
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The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites Our Visionary Powers
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“I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“Nothing important is completely explicable.”
― A Circle of Quiet
― A Circle of Quiet
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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¡ POETRY !
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