Summer Reading
posted by drew
06.20.09
Yesterday I grabbed the dictionary off the shelf for the first time in a while. I wanted to look up the word "Mammon," to get the exact definition for my son, who's considering it as a name for his newly-formed metal band. But of course once I opened the pages, so many words spilled out that I got lost along the way to my intended destination.
This is one reason I love books.
I've always been a proponent of what I call "random research," because this is where serendipity and synchronicity can flourish and creativity is given space to leap. If you surround yourself with fantastic books, each one is like a beehive with 80,000 ideas buzzing inside. Open it, and any one might sting you.
drew dellinger
Drew Dellinger is a speaker, poet, writer, teacher, and founder of Planetize the Movement. He has inspired minds and hearts at over 1000 events around the planet, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism, democracy and compassion.
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