My love-language is asking “have you seen/read/heard this?” So here you are… Love, Ian
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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay
This poem is like chocolate lava cake for the soul. Mmmm. There’s a spoken version with music by Bon Iver, if you prefer to listen rather than read. I do both.
How to be an Adult - David Richo
The book delivers what the title promises.
Stranger Than Fiction - (2006 film)
Comedy, tragedy, or a bit of each; you can still make peace with your story. You really can.
Codependant No More - Melody Beattie
The classic treatise on the topic.
Dr Ramani - YouTube personality
An informative and compassionate expert on narcissism, narcissists, and keeping yourself safely distanced from that bullshit.
Rumi - (13th century Sufi poet)
The Guest House, Love Dogs, and Wax are good places to start. Coleman Barks did the definitive English-language adaptation. Take your time.
All The Way To The River: Love, Loss, and Liberation - Elizabeth Gilbert
She gets it.
Revisionist History (podcast) - Malcolm Gladwell
Engaging adventures in taking another look. Once hooked, it will radically expand your ability to ask good questions.
I Heart Huckabees - (2004 film)
This movie never takes the easy answer, and never excludes it either. Instead, it toys with our search for meaning the way a cat plays with a ball of yarn. Ah, what a delight.
After: A doctor explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond - Dr Bruce Greyson
This book started me down a rabbit hole so deep that when I eventually resurfaced, I had to renegotiate my previous understanding of the so-called real world.
This Is Water: Kenyon College Commencement Address - David Foster Wallace
My new Sermon On The Mount. I revisit it at least once a year. Available as a book, on YouTube, or in other iterations online.
Montreal - The Ghost of Paul Revere
A song that muses, “Are we growing apart or are we growing up. Are we in a dream, or are we waking up?”
The Untethered Soul - Michael A Singer
The New York Times bestseller on making peace with the jabbering voice in your head.
Real World - Anaïs Mitchell
Like she says in the song, I want to live in the real world.
Also:
Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach (book)
Free Will - Sam Harris (book)
Sometimes a Wild God - Tom Hirons (poem)
Living with a Wild God - Barbara Ehrenreich (book)
The Knowing - Ani DiFranco (song/book)
The Highly Sensitive Person - Dr Elaine N Aron (book)
Wild Mercy - Mirabai Starr (book)
Love Ire & Song - Frank Turner (song)
Happy wanderings :)