I don't think he did Mexico but his book Texas covers a lot re: Mexico. It was Mexico until we snatched it.Zspider wrote:Didn't Michener write a book about Mexico?
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ReluctantHoosier
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Just finished reading another Tom Brown Jr. book: "Grandfather: A Native American's lifelong search for truth and harmony with Nature."
This one was about an Apache shaman named Stalking Wolf who was his teacher.
Stalking Wolf teaches that we are here on Earth to care for nature, not destroy it. "You must take things from Nature to live, that is a given fact, but it is the way that we take those things and the end results, both immediate and in the futre, that make us caretakers."
"When we take something from Nature, its spirit does not die. Instead it becomes part of our flesh and part of our spirit. There is no real death, at least not when things are taken in the right way, the sacred way."
I've been spending a lot of time at the library and bookstores recently and now I started reading "The Universe in a Single Atom: The convergence of science and spirituality" written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
"In each atom of the realms of the universe. There exist vast oceans of world systems." --The Great Flower Ornament (An ancient Buddhist scripture).
This one was about an Apache shaman named Stalking Wolf who was his teacher.
Stalking Wolf teaches that we are here on Earth to care for nature, not destroy it. "You must take things from Nature to live, that is a given fact, but it is the way that we take those things and the end results, both immediate and in the futre, that make us caretakers."
"When we take something from Nature, its spirit does not die. Instead it becomes part of our flesh and part of our spirit. There is no real death, at least not when things are taken in the right way, the sacred way."
I've been spending a lot of time at the library and bookstores recently and now I started reading "The Universe in a Single Atom: The convergence of science and spirituality" written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
"In each atom of the realms of the universe. There exist vast oceans of world systems." --The Great Flower Ornament (An ancient Buddhist scripture).
"Those iron spikes you use have shortened the life expectancy of the Totem Pole by 50,000 years."
--A Navaho elder
--A Navaho elder
I'm working on Alaska right now and really enjoying it, though he seemed to make a pretty big leap from 14,000BC to the 1700s. I would've liked to have learned a little about the years in between. Thanks for the recommendation-- this post came to mind as I was deciding which Michener book to pick up next.ReluctantHoosier wrote:Centennial and Alaska are very good too.....
"I snatched defeat from the jaws of victory." --Paul
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"In the Words of the Buddha" an anthology by Bhikku Bodhi, a translation of some the Buddha's discourses. EXCELLENT!
"The Fate of Africa" the history of Africa since "independence". EXCELLENT but very sad.
"Aristotle's Children" discusses the impact of Aristotle's writings/philosophy (which the Moors translated from Greek to Arabic and Europeans translated into Latin) on Catholicism beginning in the 11th century ntil just before Luther et al. Very wll researched and interesting but I sometimes wonder still what alll the arguing was about...
"The Fate of Africa" the history of Africa since "independence". EXCELLENT but very sad.
"Aristotle's Children" discusses the impact of Aristotle's writings/philosophy (which the Moors translated from Greek to Arabic and Europeans translated into Latin) on Catholicism beginning in the 11th century ntil just before Luther et al. Very wll researched and interesting but I sometimes wonder still what alll the arguing was about...
I try to be a good man but all that comes
of trying is I feel more guilty.
Ikkyu
of trying is I feel more guilty.
Ikkyu