Liane Benedict

…or at least they are sitting on my night stand, the table next to my chair, on my iPhone, on my desk at work and on a tab on my laptop waiting to be ordered. And I am reading these for professional reasons, a local book club with some moms, a couple of different Twitter friends, to be a better parent, to learn, to be healthier and fight my MS…

Curriculum21 by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

21st Century Skills by Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel

Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne, M.Ed.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

The Gold Coast Cure by Andrew Larson

Living Well Emotionally by Montel Williams

Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott

Rereading Power of Now…

And there are a bunch more…

One of my favorite authors is Paulo Coelho. Read and enjoy his work as I have!  The first book of his I read was The Alchemist. Below are just a couple of quotes from some of his books…

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness. The magic moment is the moment when a “yes” or a “no” can change our whole existence. Every day, we try to pretend that we do not see that moment, that it does not exist, that today is the same as yesterday and that tomorrow will be the same too. However, anyone who pays close attention to his day will discover the magic moment. It might be hidden in the instant that we put the key in the door in the morning, in the moment of silence after supper, in the thousand and one things that appear to us to be the same. This moment exists, a moment in which all the strength of the stars flows through us and allows us to perform miracles.

Paulo Coelho