Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004) Mountains Beyond Mountains considers the story of Dr. Paul Farmer and, what at times appears like a solo mission to provide the best healthcare and support to the poorest communities in Haiti, Peru and Siberia to name a few. Kidder writes from experiences both following Farmer as well asContinue reading “Mountains Beyond Mountains”
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Life in Service is a Gift
Richard Gunderman, We Come to Life with those we Serve, Indiana University Press (2017) What do Victor Frankenstein, Ivan Ilyich, Albert Schweitzer, Rebecca, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, John Wooden, Bill Cook, Ebenezer Scrooge and Vincent van Gogh all have in common? Well in the case of We Come to Life with those we Serve theyContinue reading “Life in Service is a Gift”
A Personal Search for Everything
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love, (2006) “In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.” Eat, Pray, Love is a unique balance between autobiography and other worldly story. Gilbert depicts her pursuitContinue reading “A Personal Search for Everything”
The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse (2019) This wonderful book only came out 6 months ago but it has already been making a significant impact on social media as the story has pertinent messages for the current situation. As much an art piece as it is a story the beautifulContinue reading “The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse”
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