Well, this is involved.

I’ve just picked up Jewel’s Never Broken today. As in, I actually opened the cover, not went out to the store and bought it. I’ve had it for awhile. But here’s a link, if you’re so inclined to have your own copy. I love her. https://amzn.to/2TcG39I

It starts with an “Ode To My Fortieth Birthday” style poem, which I found poignant. I’m not even fifty pages in, and she’s breaking my heart. I feel a kindred spirit to Jewel, always have. She loves the wilderness and grew up out in the Alaskan territory on horseback. She writes many of her own songs, and I admire her resiliency. I think this will be an insightful book, not only into her life, but mine as well.

If I weren’t so ashamed of my library right now, I’d post a few pictures of it. How ’bout I just post some oldies instead?Welcome to my abode.

I have read a great many of these pictured, but I would say 50% remain unread. I just love them. This is my utopia. It’s a dream I’ve always had, to be able to walk into my own library and select a book at random. I’m pretty sure I’ll like whatever I’ve picked up because, after all, it’s mine. But I will ponder and choose and deliberate over them for awhile before I ever settle on one. And I’ll stack up ones to put on my “short list” by the couch….and it grows exponentially all year. I probably read a quarter of them.

I’m out of control. Tracy, the self appointed executor of my literary estate, agrees. But she condones it too, because in the event of my untimely death, she inherits the vast majority (Lisa, you get first dibs on 25, as previously discussed, and the lot of you may choose one each). And don’t be talkin’ ’bout all my pencil marks! It’s a disease, and no treatment is known.

I think all of you like to read, or you wouldn’t bother reading all my day to day mundane ramblings. Trust me, there are a great many authors out there who possess a greater gift than me. It’s hard for me to recommend books to the masses, whereas if I know you on a personal level I could probably inundate you with a list to keep you busy for years. So I won’t spew the virtues of all my favorites, but if you need a recommendation, drop me a comment.

You know I don’t read emails.