Here are some highlights and notes from the books that most shape my thinking.
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue
- Be Angry by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation by Fania E. Davis
- Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by Lama Rod Owens
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy Degruy
- Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire
- Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
- M Archive - After The End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self by Richard Rohr
- Decolonizing Wealth: indigenous wisdom to heal divides and restore balance by Edgar Villanueva
- Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some
- Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- Conflict Is Not Abuse - Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman
- Power-Curve Society: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Emerging Networked Economy by David Bollier, Raporteur
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Deep gratitude to my friend, Leo Martinez, who has typed these up for years. ::praying hands emoji::