no solos: Great Books
ART, COMMUNITY & RITUAL
Centering; The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings; Opening Our Moral Eye; Towards Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America /M.C. Richards
Falling out of Grace; The Spirit of Intimacy /Sobonfu Some
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community /Malidoma Some
Rose Garden and Labyrinth: A Study in Art Education / Seonaid Robertson
Standing by Words; What are People For? /Wendell Berry
BEAUTY
The Art of Simple Food I & II /Alice Waters
A Frame For Life The Designs of StudioIlse/Ilse Crawford
A Pattern Language/Christopher Alexander and others
In Praise of Shadows /Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
On Beauty and Being Just /Elaine Scarrey
Permeability/Margot McLain and James Hillman
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon/Mark Doty
BODY/MUSIC/VOICE/PERFORMANCE
Discovering the Clown, Or the Funny Book of Good Acting /Christopher Bayes
Free Your Voice: Awaken to Life Through Singing*/Silvia Nakkach and Valerie Carpenter Harmonic Experience /W.A. Mathieu
How Life Moves: Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness /Carolyn McHose & Kevin Frank
Life on Land /Emilie Conrad
A Psoas Book /Liz Koch
The Radiance Sutras /trans. Lorin Roche
LANGUAGE/WRITING/STORYTELLING
The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu /Trans. Sam Hamill
Becoming Animal /David Abrams
Body Eloquence /Nancy Mellon
Breaking the Alabaster Jar /Li Young Lee
Grimm’s Tales /Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
A Little Book on Form /Robert Hass
Real Sofistikashun /Tony Hoagland
Speech of the Grail /Linda Sussman
The Storyteller’s Way /Ashley Ramsden
Writing Down the Bones/Natalie Goldberg
PARENT SUPPORT
Hold on to Your Kids /Gordon Neufeld
Rest Play Grow /Deborah McNamarah, PhD
The Sibling Society /Robert Bly
Wired for Love /Stan Tatkin
SOUL/SPIRIT
Eros the Bittersweet /Anne Carson
Icons of a Dreaming Heart/ Renee Coleman
Mirabai Ecstatic Poems /Trans. Robert Bly and Jane Hirschfield
Silence; Steps on the Stone Path /Robert Sardello
WOMEN
Coming Home to Myself /Marion Woodman and Jill Mellick
Selected Diaries /Virginia Woolf
Ornament and Silence /Kennedy Frasier
The Way of Women /Helen Luke
OTHER
Annie John /Jamaica Kincaid
Bluets /Maggie Nelson
Emily Dickinson’s Letters /edited by Mabel Loomis Todd
Flowers and Fruits /Colette
Homebody Kabul /Tony Kushner
Isla Negra /Pablo Neruda
Metamorphosis /Mary Zimmerman
Metamorphoses /Ovid
The Narrow Road to the Interior /Kimiko Hahn
The Odyssey /Emily Wilson and Homer
The Odyssey /Mary Zimmerman
A River Sutra /Gita Mehta
Stag’s Leap /Sharon Olds
The Summer Book /Tove Jansson
To the Wedding /John Berger
Whitefoot /Wendell Berry
The Wild Iris /Louise Gluck
The World is Round /Gertrude Stein
*This is the only book about singing technique that I recommend.
