inspiration /
works of non-fiction
Polyvagal Theory - Steven Porges
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Robert Sapolsky - books, popular writing, videos
How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Empathic Ground - Judtih Blackstone
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages - Guy Deutscher
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence - Daniel Goleman
The Practicing Mind - Thomas Sterner
Vortex of Silence - Doris van Drathen
A Sense of Where You Are - John McPhee
The Power of Place - Winfred Gallagher
The Gardener and the Carpenter - Alison Gopnik
Separation -- Individuation: The Selected Papers of Margaret Mahler - Margaret Mahler
Your Self Confident Baby - Magda Gerber
The Making of Economic Society - Robert Heilbroner
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit
Tao Te Ching - Lau Tzu, new english version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Silence - Robert Sardello
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD
A Path With Heart - Jack Kornfield
The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization - A. H. Almaas
A New World Through My Window, new yorker - Olga Tokarczuk
Boundaries - Maya Lin
Polyvagal Theory - Steven Porges
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Robert Sapolsky - books, popular writing, videos
How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Empathic Ground - Judtih Blackstone
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages - Guy Deutscher
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence - Daniel Goleman
The Practicing Mind - Thomas Sterner
Vortex of Silence - Doris van Drathen
A Sense of Where You Are - John McPhee
The Power of Place - Winfred Gallagher
The Gardener and the Carpenter - Alison Gopnik
Separation -- Individuation: The Selected Papers of Margaret Mahler - Margaret Mahler
Your Self Confident Baby - Magda Gerber
The Making of Economic Society - Robert Heilbroner
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit
Tao Te Ching - Lau Tzu, new english version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Silence - Robert Sardello
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD
A Path With Heart - Jack Kornfield
The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization - A. H. Almaas
A New World Through My Window, new yorker - Olga Tokarczuk
Boundaries - Maya Lin
“I see myself existing between boundaries,
a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West.
My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings.”
-Maya Lin, Boundaries
My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings.”
-Maya Lin, Boundaries
Ladybug - Vaggianika, Kyhtira
Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley, CA
works of poetry
I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou
Stags Leap - Sharon Olds
The Essential Rumi - Translation by Coleman Barks
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Refusing Heaven - Jack Gilbert
Dream Work - Mary Oliver
Please Call Me by My True Names - Thich Nhat Hanh
works of fiction
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
To Kill a Mockingbird - Nelle Harper Lee
The Catcher in The Rye - J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
music
Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Ethiopiques, vol. 21
Rosary Sonata no. 16 Passacaglia, ‘The Guardian Angel’ - composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and performed by Rachel Podger
Mayu Shviro - Bayati Shiraz Mugam
Martha Mavroidi - Thread and Needle, Katalogi
Teodor Currentzis
Arvo Part - ALINA
Erik Satie - Gymnopedies
Bach, Unaccompanied Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma
Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
art + movement
Liu Dan - Splendor of Heaven and Earth
Faith Ringgold - Early Works & American People Series
Stations of the Cross - Barnett Newman
The Blue Period, Woman Ironing - Pablo Picasso
Alonzo King - Lines Ballet
Pina Bausch
Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Ethiopiques, vol. 21
Rosary Sonata no. 16 Passacaglia, ‘The Guardian Angel’ - composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and performed by Rachel Podger
Mayu Shviro - Bayati Shiraz Mugam
Martha Mavroidi - Thread and Needle, Katalogi
Teodor Currentzis
Arvo Part - ALINA
Erik Satie - Gymnopedies
Bach, Unaccompanied Cello Suites - Yo-Yo Ma
Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
art + movement
Liu Dan - Splendor of Heaven and Earth
Faith Ringgold - Early Works & American People Series
Stations of the Cross - Barnett Newman
The Blue Period, Woman Ironing - Pablo Picasso
Alonzo King - Lines Ballet
Pina Bausch
Italian orchid - native to the Mediterranean Basin