The First 25

So far for 2016 I have completed 25 books. That has been the most I ever done in any year of my life. Audiobooks have been a huge part of that.

Here is my list so far. Physical books are noted in parentheses.

As You Think
Ask Gary Vee
Between The World & Me
Blackhawk Down
Cicero
Contagious
Crazy Busy
Experiencing God (physical book)
Fragment
Gang Leader for a Day
Go For No
Hamilton: Revolution
Leading Small Groups in the Way of Jesus (physical book)
Ready Player One
Steve Jobs
Sun Stand Still
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Fighter’s Mind
The Innovators
The Long Run
The Science of Getting Rich
The Ultra Mindset
Voice of a Prophet
Washington: A Life
Why Nations Fail

Good Leadership

“Good leadership comes from people who have penetrated their own inner darkness and arrived at the place where we are at one with one another, people who can lead the rest of us to a place of “hidden wholeness” because they have been there and know the way.” – Parker Palmer

Harrowing (a poem)

HARROWING
by Parker Palmer

The plow has savaged this sweet field
Misshapen clods of earth kicked up
Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view
Last year’s growth demolished by the blade.
I have plowed my life this way
Turned over a whole history
Looking for the roots of what went wrong
Until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scarred.

Enough. The job is done.
Whatever’s been uprooted, let it be
Seedbed for the growing that’s to come.
I plowed to unearth last year’s reasons –

The farmer plows to plant a greening season.