Finished reading: The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills 📚 3 stars

Finished reading: All Fours by Miranda July 📚 3 stars

Finished reading: Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny 📚 3 stars

Finished reading: The Florentines by Paul Strathern 📚 4 stars

Finished reading: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills 📚 3 stars

Finished reading: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami 📚

4 stars

Finished reading: The White Book by Han Kang 📚 3 stars

Finished reading: As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem 📚

3.5 stars

Finished reading: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚 5 stars, of course!

Finished reading: A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins 📚 3 stars

Things are starting to thaw on the trails!

Finished reading: Return of the Dragon Slayers, 5 by Brandon Mull 📚

5 stars. Great series to read with the kids.

Finished reading: The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay 📚

4 stars

Last night, we watched the animated movie Flow. What a beautiful film. Wow.

Yes, it’s been snowing here over the last few days!

If you hike to the “top” of Holy Hill, you will find a carved granite slot that clearly used to hold an upright stone marker in it.

It’s still there today, even after all these years. It last served its purpose in 1853.

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Harvard’s Holy Hill was cleared and built by the Shakers over the course of 1842 and 1843. Preserved journals capture some of the steps they took for the construction.

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Every day, I start out the day hiking the trails near my house. I started the habit at the beginning of COVID - a way to continue to get exercise and to both ground and refresh myself in nature. I rarely skip that walk – usually just when I’m sick.

The primary trail I typically walk on is called “Holy Hill” - a key location on the path being an old Shaker outdoor worship area in the 1840’s.

It is fitting, then, that my first entry in my “Where I live” series is about the Holy Hill trail.

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Finished reading: The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey 📚 4 stars

Finished reading: The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller 📚 4 stars