Recreational Reading

I'm back in Alaska for a couple of weeks, and it's nice to finally be able to relax! All of the free time is a novelty. My sister gave me a book to read over the break called "A Life at Work" by Thomas Moore. As an English major (and a college student in general), I usually only have time to read what is required of me, if I even manage that. This book is actually really good, and applicable to any aspiring college student, college student, or person in any stage of life. It's about how to "discover what you were born to do."

There are inspirational quotes at the beginning of each chapter. At the beginning of Chapter 4, I read this:

"Leonardo advised aspiring artists to discover the pictures to be found in cracks in walls; Chinese sages were conceived as their mothers stepped into the footprints of unicorns; all of us make up our lives out of the cracks in the walls of our past memories and the unicorn footprints of our future."

Lynda Sexson

I gasped when I read this. I have mentioned before that my favorite professor this semester was Dr. Michael Sexson. For one of our class periods, he did not come to class at all but instead had a guest speaker run the class. The guest speaker was, in fact, his wife, Lynda Sexson. And it was the same Lynda Sexson quoted above, in this renowned book I am reading. Crazy!

Some Google-ing has revealed that the quote is from a book called "Ordinarily Sacred" by Sexson. And it is indeed the same Sexson. She is a history/humanities professor at MSU, and is as wise as or wiser than her husband. My classmates and I always wondered how their dinner conversations went. Probably, they would be over our heads.

The longer I am in college, the more I find connections between my life and the world around me. It's great.

And I would recommend "A Life at Work," if you're looking for something to read and/or are lost in life.

I might check out "Ordinarily Sacred," too.