When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools,
dig a way out through the bottom
to the ocean. There is a secret medicine
given only to those who hurt so hard
they can't hope.
"The Essential Rumi," translated by Coleman Barks
How the Quakers Invented America, by David Yount
IN FRENCH: Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
WITH ROB: Shadow Puppets, by Orson Scott Card
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor
The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
Madness in the Family, by Willian Saroyan
Anna Akhmatova (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets), by Anna Akhmatova