Life is always a journey it is how we handle the journey that counts and when we share our journey with the ones we love. We need to listen to the crickets, feel the wind on our face, taste the rain in our mouths, see the birth of new life, and smell the fresh cut grass. To grow is to learn, to learn is to grow.
Part of my 2011 New Years Resolution is to read 100 quality books and soak up all the learning withing them. Part of my 2011 journey will consist of 12 books honoring woman in history or literature, 12 books taking place or about Italy and 12 books for spiritual growth and development. The rest of the books will be unplanned either reads with my dear friends or book groups. Something to enlight, enrich and enjoy.
Twelve books in honor of woman; whom bring life, love and laughter to the world I will be reading one book a month to honor and learn more about women-
January 2011: Founding Mothers: The Women who raised our Nation by Cokie Roberts
February 2011: Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I by Jane Resh Thomas
March 2011: The Joy of Loving A Guide to Daily Living by Mother Teresa
April 2011: Middlemarch by George Eliot
May 2011: Sanditon by Jane Austen
June 2011: America's Women: 400 years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmats and Heroines by Gail Collins
July 2011: Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo
August 2011: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
September 2011: The Hiding Place By Corrie Ten Boom
October 2011: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelo
November 2011: Joan of Arc Her Story by Regine Pernoud
December 2011: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Twelve books for Spiritual Growth-
January 2011: Jung the Mystic, The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings by Gary Valentine Lachman
February 2011: Shakti Mantras: Tapping Into the Great Goddess Energy Within by Thomas Ashley-Farrand
March 2011: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
April 2011: Mantra Meditation: Change Your Karma With the Power of Sacred Sound by Thomas Ashley-Farrand
May 2011: Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing by Stephan A. Hoeller
June 2011: Miracles by C.S. Lewis
July 2011: Living Gnosis a Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity by Tau Malachi
August 2011: The Magdalene Gospel Meeting the Women who Followed Jesus by Mary Ellen Ashcroft
September 2011: Gods Problem How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Questions Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
October 2011: Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Gustav Jung
November 2011: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book
by Miguel Ruiz
December 2011: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
Twelve books about or taking place in Italy-
January 2011: A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
February 2011: Between Two Seas by Carmine Abate
March 2011: The Imperfectionists: A Novelby Tom Rachman
April 2011: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
May 2011: A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
June 2011: Up at the Villa by W. Somerset
July 2011: The Last Promise by Richard Evans
August 2011: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel by Irving Stone
September 2011: In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel by Sarah Dunant
October 2011: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
November 2011: The Aspern Papers by Henry James
December 2011: Vivaldi's Virgins: A Novel by Barbara Quick
This is only part of my journey for this year. I will also be working out as I feel so much better when I exercise. I suffered a severe arm injury in October and the last three months wasn't able to rock climb, lift weights, participate in yoga or biking like I usually do. I am going to be more careful when working out and not push myself beyond my limits. I plan on being on 5.10b walls by the end of 2011 that gives me 364 days and tomorrow is my first day climbing for 2011.
I am also on a journey of self discovery. I need to find who I am and my missing link. Thus I am studying Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Jungism. I plan on doing a lot of meditation and just enjoying myself, my children, my family and my friends.
