About Me/ Library & Links



'"... I say "High", You say, "Low." You say, "Why?" And I say, "I don't know." You say "Goodbye" and I say "Hello! Hello, Hello!"' - The Beatles

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Hello! I hope you find what you are looking for on some of these pages from my life. I am in this Musical, becoming more than I am currently, but also accepting who I have been and celebrating the now (and sometimes breaking out into song.) I strive to embrace my messy humanness, mistakes and all. I set my life to music. On posts, this translates to songs left on the bottom. 

I enjoy the varied study of the world we create, and believe the travesties in history are worth noting to learn from along with the ordinary day to day, natural beauties that we must celebrate! There is so much ordinary magic / Divinity around in our homes and nature if we beautify our gaze while also telling our stories of personal truths and struggles. Mine happen to often be accompanied by a Wonderlandy dose of my own crazy experiences. I believe when we know ourselves first, we make the world a better place. When we combine responsibility, humour, compassion, wisdom and love of the simple, we have the innate privilege of re creating alternatives to the cruelty of the world. At least that is my idealistic hope. I cling tenaciously to both earned and unearned sparkles. I can't help it- I grew up on musicals. Could it be possible that when we embrace our collective grief, pain and mistakes, we learn from them? When we tell our stories, maybe we help create the world we live in? I believe faith is in story more than words and try to live it more than speak it. As I age, I actually do not know...

I believe in the magic that is divine life. I desire to live this quote, "You must habit yourself to the dazzle of your light and every moment of your life."- Walt Whitman. I encompass dazzle and darkness.

 You are a companion to me in this world we are creating. We are intentional souls singing in our respective musicals (or drama's or epic ~ ordinary stories.) May you go forward to create the unique beauty only your soul is able to give in your story.

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This "library" is a linked resource to SOME of the books that I have recommended in blog posts, comments or emails. Some of the posts since 2013 are down but I have left up the library links. I believe many different stances are valuable and authors range from Believers, Atheists, Agnostics to Varied forms of Religion. I am not including ART or Film I have referenced, in this list nor my actual reading list as I can gobble up a book every couple hours when I have the time, and it would be too large of a resource page. I love all books- even some poorly written ones that still have big ideas! I guess I am not really a book snob, as long as there is new information, inspiration or some well written prose.)

 PODCASTS / VIDEOS I have referenced in posts:

I highly recommend Geography Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP6G2wDrUUU
If you are also interested in a few more links to thinking differently about religion, life, finances and philosophy try:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNkMybYIHKR  
Crash course philosophy 
http://freethoughtblogs.com/reasonabledoubts/ and the free Reasonable Doubts podcasts on ITunes

http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com  The Partially Examined Life Podcasts- also in iTunes form.

The Western Tradition -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bjkly-WaA8  These are VIDEOS and not Podcasts.
http://www.onbeing.org

- Frank James MBTI has hilarious insights into all the types. He is a fellow INFJ.

http://www.personalityhacker.com  Podcast and Article Personality advice, healing self help, Tailored personality insight. I prefer their older material.

Jonathan Pageau has an excellent book list on religion/ art/ culture and symbolism found here: https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/reading-list


BOOKS I have referenced in posts:
 
*Links for either the book or a website are in Author's name.* In NO particular order.

 Philosophy/ Theology:
If you are looking for basic Philosophy I highly recommend reading ONE book from each famous Philosopher ( I am not going to list all the books): CLICK HERE. *It should go without saying (but in our current explosive culture I guess it doesn't) that I do NOT subscribe to ALL the beliefs nor people or books on this list. Just because I have read it and it's on here does not mean it reflects whom I am. It means it shaped me for better or worse or maybe even because I disliked it so much. But most are favourites on here, although there are some books that influenced me greatly and I disliked them.*


  • Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by 
  • Anam Cara- John O'Donohue
  • Wisdom of the Shire- Noble Smith
  • The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of Everyday- Sharon Blackie
  • A brief History of Thought- Luc Ferry 
  • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who you are- Alan Watts
  • Seneca - On The Shortness of Life and Life is Long If You Know How To Use It FREE PDF HERE - This is so good we own the hard copy to hold in our hands found HERE
  • The Discourses of Epictetus- Epictetus 
  • The Trial and Death of Socrates- Plato
  • Descartes- Harry M Braken
  • The Human Condition- Hannah Arendt
  • Born Again -The Christian Right Globalized- J.S. Butler
  • Ethics- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • How to Live:A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer-  Sarah Bakewell
  • Mere Christianity- C.S. Lewis
  • A Manual for Living- Epictetus
  • Beyond Good and Evil- Friedrich Nietzsche (FREE PDF version on link) 
  • * The Art of Living- Epictetus - A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell
    *Letters to a Young Poet- Rainer  Maria Rilke
  • The Brothers Karomazou- Dostoyevsky Free here
  • Sins of Scripture- Spong
  • Thank God for evolution- Michael Dowd
  • Between Past and Present- Hannah Arendt
  • Ethics-  Baruch Spinoza
  • How Jesus became God- Bart Ehrman
  • The New Atheist Crusaders- Becky Garrison
  • Truth - Philosophy In transit- John D. Caputo
  • Generous Orthodoxy - Brian McLaren
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
  • On Religion - John D. Caputo
  • Reason for God - Timothy Keller
  • The Cynical Idealist- Gary Tillery
  • The Myth of Sisyphus: and Other Essays- Albert Camus
  • Called to Question - Joan Chittister
  • Wisdom distilled From the Daily - Joan Chittister
  • A Gentler God- Doug Frank
  • Weird Things People Believe- Michael Shermer
  • War is A Force that Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
  • Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community- Wendell Berry
  • The God who May be- Richard Kearney
  • The Problems of Philosophy- Bertrand Russell
  • The Ethics of Ambiguity- Simone De Beauvoir
  • Existentialism and Humanism- John Paul Sarte
  • Tractatus Theologico- Politicus- Baruch Spinoza
  • Comfortable with Uncertainty- Chodron
  • Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand (didn't love it. Liked some of her quotes though.)
  • Sophie's World- Jostein Gaarder   (An introduction to Philosophy that works for children.)
  • Beyond Order  12 more rules for life- Jordan Peterson ( I did not like his first book- I found this one quite balanced and raising interesting points for normal living.) 
  • This Beautiful Truth- Sarah Clarkson
    • Educational Resources/ Unschooling/ Cultural Conditioning
    YOUNG ADULT FICTION  FANTASY 
    Some of these have sexual or violent content or older elements.
    *I put a star beside the ones that are for any age*
    Children's (Also Educational)

    Linnets and Valerians- Elizabeth Goudge
    A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens

    Autism/ Asperger's Personal accounts / Neurodiversity:

    Self Help  and Food/ Health:


    *This beautiful Truth- Sarah Clarkson
    *Time to Make- Ginger Hendrix 
    *The First Forty Days- the Essential art of Nourishing the New Mother- Heng OU with Amely Greevan and Marisa Belger  (Every mother to be and supportive family should read this book.)

    Home and Design/ Nature and Landscape:
    • The Garden Awakening- Designs to Nurture our Land and ourselves- Mary Reynolds
    • Trees - Lewis Blackwell
    • Front Yard Gardens- Liz Prime
    • The Not so Big ...series- Sarah Susanka (This series Changed our home and our life and I have had architects come into our house wondering if we were architects- my husband is in construction and I studied Susanka's books for years along with architectural plans and design as a hobby and then my husband implemented the ideas and the rest is history in our home:) 
    • Architecture- Jonathan Glancy
    • *How NOT to kill your Houseplant- Veronica Peerless (This is the easiest, quickest guide to plant care for beginners with pictures of common house plants and general care guides.)
    Fun Misc:

    • I am sorry as I tend to forget about this page or add once a year resources I have referenced. Feel free to use the email on side of page to ask about any resources or discuss books etc. 

    *For a humorous song:) Brilliant.

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    6 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    Wow, gotta get my library card out :) Everything on here looks great! Thanks for sharing, fellow readers must stick together!

    April 14, 2015 at 1:59 PM
    Kmarie said...

    Lol...awesome. Thanks! I hope you can enjoy some of the links and books! Gotta love reading:)

    April 15, 2015 at 4:24 PM
    S said...

    Thank you for sharing the list of books. I am trying to order on-line some of them !

    June 12, 2017 at 10:13 PM
    Kmarie said...

    S: You are welcome...its fun to add to sometimes...it doesnt even compare to the library in my home but it's a start! I hope you enjoy whatever you order and I could probably tailor suggest some for you if you tell me within what realm:)

    June 13, 2017 at 5:47 PM
    Anonymous said...

    Amazed and delighted to stumble onto this! As a fellow INFJ, feel like I'm in a virtual candy store! "Not all those who wander are lost"-J.R.R.Tolkien 🙏

    April 6, 2022 at 10:11 PM
    Kmarie said...

    Hello fellow INFJ!
    Well I hope that the store is mostly sweet!

    I love JRRTolkien ! “ it’s the ordinary deeds that keep the darkness at bay”

    April 7, 2022 at 10:32 PM

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