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The Silver Chair Book Club: The Circus Won’t Find the Park

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

The Silver Chair stony outcroppings

Our young heroes continue their quest to rescue the Prince, and discover a hard learned secret about being in it together as our discussion of The Silver Chair continues.

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The Silver Chair Book Club: Horrible Errors of Childhood

By Will Willingham 7 Comments

mountains and clouds for The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

In the first installment of The Silver Chair book club, we consider the errors of childhood that haunt us in our efforts to good in the world.

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Book Club Announcement: The Silver Chair

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

bridge is sunrise mist

What we remember can be the key to finding our way, completing a task, maybe even saving the world. Join us for our new book club, where remembering is the way through the dark: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis.

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The Jungle Effect Book Club: The Basics of Indigenous Diets and How They Work

By Charity Singleton Craig 18 Comments

bee pollen purple flower

In this week’s book club discussion of The Jungle Effect, Charity Singleton Craig considers the benefits of an indigenous diet, relying on locally available foods.

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Adjustments Book Club: Homecomings

By Rick Maxson 15 Comments

Path in autumn leaves

In the final installment of our book club discussion of Adjustments, Rick Maxson reflects on what makes a home, and what makes it possible for a person to come home again.

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Adjustments Book Club: Messages Out of the Dark and Dancing in the Lights

By Rick Maxson 3 Comments

night sky silhouette hill

In this week’s Adjustments book club, Rick Maxson reflects on what it means, in Archibald MacLeish’s words, to take the world, and on Will Phillips’ fumbling acceptance of his many selves.

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Adjustments Book Club: We Note Our Place With Book Markers

By Rick Maxson 19 Comments

Sunrise in field

How does friendship play a role in identifying, and going on to meet, our needs? Explore the relationship between new friends Will and Joe in Rick Maxson’s first Adjustments Book Club installment.

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Book Club Announcement: Adjustments by Will Willingham

By Rick Maxson 3 Comments

Round bales in fog

The best books are those that invite us into a world we would never have thought to enter. Adjustments by Will Willingham is such a book and such a world. Join Richard Maxon for our latest book club discussion beginning Nov. 18.

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Want a Sense of Home, Togetherness & Creativity?—Try The Farmers Market Factor

By Charity Singleton Craig 4 Comments

Farmacology farmers market cucumbers

Charity Singleton Craig wraps up her book club discussion of Farmacology exploring the ways that farmers markets and community gardening contribute to the health not only of individuals, but of entire communities.

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Book Club Announcement: “The Art of the Essay”

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

book club

Get ready to join Tweetspeak Poetry for some essay-writing! Join us next month for a book club about Charity Singleton Craig’s ‘The Art of the Essay.’

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Book Club Announcement: Farmacology

By Charity Singleton Craig 5 Comments

Farmacology bowls on stone wall

What’s good for the land—its soil, its vegetation, its animals—is also good for us. Starting September 16, join Charity Singleton Craig for a book club discussion of Daphne Miller’s Farmacology and the connection between farming and health.

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Book Club: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Sfumato

By Will Willingham 6 Comments

How to think like leonardo da vinci sfumato

Can Mona Lisa’s unnerving smirk help you get comfortable with ambiguity and deepen your creativity? Find out in this week’s book club discussion of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci.

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Book Club: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Curiosità

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci curiosity

Often, the most important thing is not the answer, but the question. Michael Gelb (and Leonardo da Vinci) suggest we write a hundred questions to get our curiosity started.

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Book Club Announcement: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

By Will Willingham 5 Comments

Don’t know much about the Renaissance? Not to worry. Join LW Willingham for a bit of exploration and curiosity in a new book club on How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Gifts of Ritual Together

By Will Willingham 10 Comments

Braiding Sweetgrass fog on mountains

We’re discussing Robin Wall Kimmerer’s rich and thoughtful Braiding Sweetgrass this month. Today, we consider the communal gifts of the earth and remembering, but not before doing a little yoga.

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Skywoman Falling, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Skywoman falling

Enjoy this selection from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, courtesy of Milkweed Editions.

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Difficult Conversations: Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

By Will Willingham 8 Comments

Difficult Conversations The Identity Conversation

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Difficult Conversations: Book Club & Pod Club Announcement

By Will Willingham

Difficult Conversations craggy rocks in fog

In October, the focus of our Friendship Project turns to the subject of Difficult Conversations. Join us for upcoming book and pod club discussions on this important topic.

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Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970—More Than Just Different

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Provence 1970 French antique store

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Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Making (and Breaking) Rules

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

Art of Gathering Barn Dance

In this week’s book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider how rules can provide the structure needed to make events more experimental, whimsical and democratic.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, The Art of Gathering

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