What we're reading

One poem and one book a month. Only things we love enough to press flowers in.

✶ This month · Poem

I'm Nobody! - Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -

To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!

The poem behind this month's first ponder.

❧ This month · Book

Plainspoken talks on seeing ourselves clearly - our conditioning, our authorities, our noisy thoughts. Short chapters; one at a time is plenty.

Pairs with this month's poem - both ask who you'd be without an audience.

✿ Marginalia · how we read here

1. Scribble in the margins. Argue with the author. Change your mind halfway through.
2. Read things you disagree with. Sometimes that's where it gets interesting.
3. Pass a good book on. Preferably with a few dog-eared pages and something strange underlined.

✿ The dog-eared shelf ✿

Earlier reads will rest here, month by month. Nothing on the shelf yet.

The first past read will rest here

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