I was happy and lucky enough to be able to stop at the library this morning on my way to work.  I returned last months books about 80 percent read, which I consider quite an accomplishment for me.  If you question that statement, then you should know that while I am an avid reader, I am actually quite slow at the task (recreation).  I am also easily distracted and my life is usually lived in 15 minute increments, having often so many jobs and all.  I rarely have a whole hour to sit down and read–not that I can last that long anyway.  Even if I’m sitting by the fire reading, I don’t last  long because I’m constantly worrying about the fire going out.  I really hate failing at the fire.  And yet, I continue to pursue this passion and hope to do so with greater intention and peace this year.

Here’s my reading list so far for this month:

• James Merrill’s “The Country of A Thousand Years of Peace and other poems“
• Roethke: Collected Poems
• The Poems of Emily Dickinson as edited by R.W. Franklin

and in keeping with February’s theme of sending and inviting love,

• Jane Austen’s Sandition.

I would like one more non-fiction book, so recommendations are welcome.  I greatly enjoyed reading from the desert fathers and mothers last month, so anything in that line of thinking would be great.  I need words to create peace and a rooted state of mind.