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Epicurean Simplicity
by Stephanie Mills
Island Press, Washington D.C., 2002
I loved Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, one of the first books to warn us about environmental degradation. We were still near the top of that particular slippery slope back then. Leopold died in 1948, characteristically, while helping fight a grass fire on a neighbor’s farm. Fifty-four terrible years later, Stephanie Mills, environmental activist and writer, tells us that Leopold is one of her personal heroes. In her new book, Epicurean Simplicity, and in her life, she does him proud.
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Earth Bound:
Daily Meditations for All Seasons
by Brian Nelson
Skinner House Books, Boston, 2004
Brian Nelson’s Earth Bound would make a good gift for both the Pagan and the Pagan-friendly. It is a collection of 366 essays, one assigned to each day of the year. As you might expect from the title, the author focuses on nature and the Earth. From this base, he forays into a variety of fields including science, history, music, and art, as well as numerous cultures and religions. Each daily entry is about half a page, just long enough to present an interesting fact or two along with an idea for further exploration.
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Medical Herbalism:
The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine
by David Hoffmann
Healing Arts Press, 2004
David Hoffmann, highly respected author of seventeen books on herbalism, has outdone himself with his latest offering. In writing it, the author intends to bring together “the modern scientific movement with traditional herbal practice.” Every health care practitioner of Western medicine in the United States should read this book.
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Tarot of the Secret Forest
by Lucia Mattioli
Art Tarot Collection, Lo Scarabeo, Torino, Italy
Using this deck feels like taking a path into the deepwood, the cards bearing images that invoke tangled, green mystery. If you collect Tarot decks, then you will surely want to add this one to your collection. If you are a serious student of Tarot and want to explore new realms, then this deck is also most definitely for you.
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I-Ching Holitzka Deck
by Marlies and Klaus Holitzka
United States Games Systems
My copy of Wilhelm’s I-Ching, Book of Changes is stored securely wrapped in red silk; the cloth is said to inhibit any impact from external influences. I haven’t touched the book in years. But, one of the last times I did, my husband and I followed the instruction: “The Superior Man will seek his fortune in the south and west.” At the time, we were in the midst deciding whether or not to accept a job offer that would move our family from Boston to a land-locked city in Ohio. We took the advice. In retrospect, it was a good decision.
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Gaia Eros:
Reconnecting to the Magic and Spirit of Nature
by Jesse Wolf Hardin
New Page Books, 2004
The day I received my review copy of Gaia Eros, my husband and I went to bed and took turns reading Jesse Wolf Hardin’s luminous essays aloud long into the night. At one point the sound of wolves howling came in through our cabin’s open windows. Their voices wove in and out of my husband’s voice as he read about sacred self-indulgence and the power of longing, heightening the meaning of Hardin’s words.
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Ill Met By Moonlight
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Ace Books
Young Will Shakespeare has a problem. The poor schoolmaster, barely out of his teens, comes home to find his young bride Nan gone and his baby daughter replaced in her crib by a wooden “stock.”
