Welcome the Biblio Diva, who likes to round out her thought life: take her brain for a spin, intersect with the ideas of others, then offer an occasional view on books she’s reading.

The Biblio Diva has a question for you: What if a photo essay could also be a mini-book report?

I live my life in widening circles . . .

 

The Biblio Diva loves to read

The quote beneath the armillary sphere comes from Rilke’s Book of Hours. She keeps that book beside her computer. Reads it often.

At present, she’s immersed in a book about gratefulness, by David Steindl-Rast.

His early chapters describe the simple, wholehearted gratefulness that brims within people spontaneously as a form of prayer, often wordless.

One way to increase this welling gratitude, he writes, is through attentiveness. But be warned: [Read more…]