Yesterday I walked with a group for a couple of hours on the trails that the Newells maintain on a couple of hundred acres behind their house. We had gotten about 5 inches of snow the night before; it was perfect.
Election years seem to push my reading toward current events and trying to understand the world. I started
The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post-Religious Right America by Jim Wallis. Religion is the weirdest thing our weird-ass little species does, and watching it evolve is a hobby of mine. The writing was too friendly and bland, I passed it on. Now I'm reading Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely an MIT guy whose field is behavioral economics.
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