"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
- Mitch Albom
Editor’s comment: This month’s favorite is courtesy (again) of my daughter, Caitlin. It gives me (and her) chills.
"Do we really need much more than this? To honor the dawn. To visit a garden. To talk to a friend. To contemplate a cloud. To cherish a meal. To bow our heads before the mystery of the day. Are these not enough?"
- Kent Neburn
Editor’s comment: Sleep is a big topic in our family so when my friend, Kevin Shaw, suggested this book I downloaded it immediately. Walker has become acclaimed for his work as a neuroscientist and professor at Harvard and now the University of California, Berkley. He also writes in a understandable fashion (unlike some braniacs). The stunning conclusion of Dr. Walker’s work: Sleep is the most underestimated and underutilized health aid in our modern society.
"I do not represent blacks or tall women, or women or Samoans or Californians or Americans. Or rather I hope I do, because I am all those things. But that is not all that I am. I am all of that and more and less. People often put labels on people so they don’t have to deal with the physical fact of those people… I simply refuse to have my life narrowed and proscribed."
-Maya Angelou
Editor’s comment: A friend of mine and I were praying the other day about his late wife and their adult children in her memory and this song came to me. By all accounts she was one who lived her life out loud and so I share, in Danni Bowers’ memory one of my favorite songs of all time.
Editor’s comment: When this book was among Gates’ recommendations, I jumped at it. I’ve never put together anything coherent about the jihadist movement until some things connected through this book. The good news for casual historians like me, Warrick won the Pulitzer Prize for this with facts but it reads for me like a novel, albeit a very dark one. It takes a chapter or two to connect names using four or five words and a hyphen or two, but I felt I learned a lot by turning its pages.
