Currently reading "String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis."

It is a collection of Wallace's five essays centering around tennis. Wallace is probably best known for his monster of a novel, "An Infinite Jest," (which actually centers around a junior tennis player), however that book was too much for me to handle when I tried it a couple years back. This is much more digestible & to be honest more enjoyable. Wallace's style and tone fit the subject matter beautifully.

For reference, I was not a tennis fan before reading his piece on Michael Joyce (David Foster Wallace The String Theory - David Foster Wallace on Tennis It is one of five pieces in the book, totally recommend it); his writing gave me an insight to the sport I've never had before. Now I've found myself clamoring for evermore knowledge of the sport & those involved.

100% recommend.

 

Just started reading Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" for my book club. Supposed to be a classic but jeez the first 30 pages were rough

 

^I her ya. I've never made it through any of his stuff.

Just finished Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House: The Clients' Report by (you guessed it), Mr. and Mrs. Hanna. It was really interesting to read about their experience planning, building and their interactions with FLW. I experienced some of their same frustrations with the building process, which was unexpected. They eventually gifted it to Stanford and I can't help but wonder what they would think of what's happened to it since the book was published.

 

Just picked up From Cradle to Stage by Dave Grohl's mom. Really looking forward to starting it (hopefully) this weekend.

 

^That was a good read, but it left me wanting to know more about a lot of people!

I've just started to re-read The Great Gatsby...so far I don't remember any of it.

 

Kind of IRONIC to Put this ON HERE but


I feel I can confidently say I am on my phone or Puter less than most

 

The Healing Wisdom of Birds: An Everyday Guide to Their Spiritual Songs & Symbolism.

Birds?! say wha? Gotta love good old Mother Nature. We fail to appreciate a lot of things that are natural these days as most of us what we experience is manufactured and we take for granted the things that keep us alive. It kind of reminds me of one of the quotes from a book that I'm reading at the moment, at the very beginning after he makes his acknowledgments, on an 18th century Chasidic view of discoveries : "Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world."


"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

If you seek truth, look to Nature.

Wisdom is when you can write an original quote about what you think true wisdom is; hence, I don't think I have attained true wisdom yet.

 

Anything I can get my hands on about total solar eclipse photography techniques.

 

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I've been lamenting that a lot lately with a resurgence in my interest in anthropology. Ten thousand years ago we were much more connected to the things we depended on for survival of the human race: the land, water, food sources...Now we're so disconnected from those processes and humans don't generally need to think about survival in the same way, so we don't care as much about the land, water, food, etc. It's really unfortunate.