WELLSPRINGS
My reading life is, rather, obviously eclectic and intuitive. I tend to leap, not plod. You
don’t need to do a thing with this list. It’s an experiment. I thought that, if Francis
and I published some of our source books, some of you might find something of use.
I’d say, should you read anything, read “The Donkey” in Grimm’s collection.
Kim’s Current Stack of Books for Mysteries of the Artful Life, Session II
J.S. Bach, Ricercar a 3 in E flat (This is for me, very much, a form of reading.)
Berry, Wendell, The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
Fierz-David, Linda and Hall, Nor, Dreaming in Red: The Women’s Dionysian Initiation
Chamber in Pompei
Goethe, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily
Grohmann, Gerbert, The Living World of the Plants: A Book for Children and Students
of Nature
Grimm’s Fairy Tales – In particular “The Donkey”
Howard, Michael, Educating the Will
Johnson, Robert, The Unlived Life
Jung, Carl, Mysterium Coniunctionis
Luxford, Michael, Loving the Stranger: Studies in Adolescence, Empathy and the
Human Heart
Robert Sardello: Silence; Love and the World, The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve
Virtues, Steiner and Jung; Steps on the Stone Path
Scarrey, Elaine, On Beauty
Albert Schweitzer: J.S. Bach
Woodman, Marion, The Pregnant Virgin
T.H. White, The Once and Future King (I am reading this w/Peter & it’s weaving its way
into my thoughts…)
And a couple of books about the English artist Samuel Palmer…