Music and Books

Sometimes a villager in Ordinary mentions a book or song title that exists in our world. In those cases, I link to a commercial web site, such as Amazon.com, where you can learn more about the book or song.

I prefer Amazon because I'm a tad lazy, and they make it easy to find book excerpts and audible song samples.

Below is a list of titles that have appeared in Ordinary posts, as well as on this blog.

The list is divided in two sections: Books and Music. It includes the original post in which the title appeared, and a link to the commercial web site where you can find information and, frequently, excerpts and samples.

Enjoy!

Books

• Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, by Helena Norberg-Hodge; appeared in Learning from Ladakh, 6/17/05, Ordinary Peace, 1/23/06, Chi choen?--What's the point?, 2/5/05



• Sent by Earth: A message from the Grandmother Spirit after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, by Alice Walker; appeared in Welcome the Children, 8/6/06



• Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman; appeared in Gaviotas--A Real Village, 9/11/05



• Start Where You Are, by Pema Chadron; appeared in Why Do We Kill People?, 1/18/06, Ordinary Peace, 1/23/06, The Slave Trade--alive and flourishing, 2/9/06



• The Mistress of Spices, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; appeared in Nest on 7/26/05



• Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams and David Carson; referenced in Bonnie on 8/18/05



• Silk Roads and Shadows by Susan Schwartz; appeared in Amends on 1/21/06



• The Mind of the Dolphin: A Non-Human Intelligence, by John C. Lilly; appeared in Something Wrong with this Picture on 9/9/05



• Communication Between Man andDolphin: The Possibilities of Talking With Other Species, by John C. Lilly; appeared in Something Wrong with this Picture on 9/9/05



• Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow; appeared in Chi choen?--What's the point?, 2/25/05



• Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Welcome the Children, 8/6/06

Music

Note: To find the audible song samples, scroll down the page. It may be necessary to expand the track selections as the web site does not display them all at first.

• The Garden Song, (audio sample on Disc 2, Track 8); appeared in Weed
  on 6/21/05


• The Erie Canal, (audio sample available); appeared in Rain on 7/17/05


• You Never Can Tell, (audio sample on Track 9); appeared in Dance 9/15/06


• Do Ya, by K.T. Oslin (audio sample on Track 5); appeared in Dance 9/15/06

This post will be updated as new books and song titles are added.