StrayPoetry

Into The Wild, by John Krakauer was a short read, it doesn't take a lot of room on the shelf, but there are treasures within that belay it's small size. A friend recommended the book to me about 4 years ago, and gave me a short synopsis of the story. I remember it well, because I had just finished reading: 'Between A Rock And A Hard Place' by Aron Ralston, and I was telling my friend about it. He immediately told me that I would like 'Into the Wild'. Now, I find it in the used section of a...

I saw an old red leather bound book in the .25 section of a local Book sellers' rack. The published date was 1907, and the title: Little Rivers by Henry Van Dyke.It was in rough shape, the edges were torn, the cover was held on with a rubber band. It was a small book, once bound in red leather, with gold gilt lettering. I thumbed the cover open, and found this inscription: "Essays on profitable idleness" That cinched it for me, and since $0.25 is not much to gamble on a good book; I bought it...

Buckminster Fuller once said:"I suggest to audiences that they say: "I'm going 'outstairs' and 'instairs.'" At first that sounds strange to them; They all laugh about it. But if they try saying in and out for a few days in fun, they find themselves beginning to realize that they are indeed going inward and outward in respect to the center of Earth, which is our Spaceship Earth. And for the first time they begin to feel real "reality." Intuition (1972)It gives the mind a new light doesn't...