Every month, I browse, fast read, or read ten to twenty books, and carefully read or study two or three books on the following subjects: the history of ideas, intellectual history, zeitgeist studies, philosophy of history, biographies.
Intellectual History - My hypertext notebook
This month, for example:
Whitehead, Alfred North. Science and the Modern World, 1926.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, 4 Volumes. Philip P. Wiener, Editor in Chief. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968, 1973. For example, Volume 1: 677 pages, Contains: Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts to Design Argument. An outstanding resource for under $70.00 for the four volume paperback set. VSCL.
I am retired, so I am like a college student again. I use libraries and bookstores to acquire new and used titles, and reread books books in my home library. I read articles on the Internet and this counts for six books.
Currently, I am reading books and articles related to the history of thinking about time, processes, the meaning of the future, process theology, ecology, feelings of duration, Whitehead, Hartshorn, Cobb.
Getting ready for Summer Solstice Celebrations, and busy with gardening at home. Our California weather permitted vegetable gardening all year, with "summer veggies" from May to October. The Solstice (June 21st) is one kind of a "Mid-Summer" celebration of maximum Sun during the day, fertility, productivity of agriculture, gratitude for blessings from the Earth, exuberance, zest ...
Our Summer 2021 travel adventures include a trip to cabins and boating on Silver Lake, Fourth of July fun, a wedding in Spokane, river boat trips, Olympic National Park (Forks, La Push), and mid-summer visits to the Pacific Coast. Canada is still closed due to pandemic flu rules, so our trip to British Columbia (300 miles north) will wait till later.
Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo
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