Best Of 2023

It was a year.

I was just getting used to living my days without Trump-related PTSD, and now we have to face it all again. I did the empty nester thing for a year and changed until one of them came back for a year off. I watched a bunch of TV and listened to a lot of music. I read a ton of self-help books and did some work on both my personal and my work life.

Non-music things I really enjoyed in 2023:

Things I spent a lot of time on this year

• The process-philosophy work of Alfred North Whitehead, and the related process theology, starting with David Ray Griffin
• The amazing art of George Herriman, Edward Gorey, and Liniers
• learning how to draw better

Improving my abilities:

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• I Didn’t Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeleine Dore
• How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
• The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast by Josh Kaufman

Thinking more deeply:

• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
• Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by Gary Saul Morson & Morton Schapiro
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

Stories and fiction (with pictures)

• Cerebus vol 5 - Jaka’s Story by Dave Sim & Gerhard
• The Seasons Have Teeth by Dan Watters & Sebastián Cabrol
• Something Is Killing The Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera
• Here by Richard McGuire

Stories and fiction (without pictures)

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Some history

• The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
• The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman

Some TV I really enjoyed

• Scavengers Reign
• Beef
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Strange Planet
• Wheel Of Time
• Katla
• The Diplomat
• Silo
• Justified: City Primeval

Youtubers I Have Watched A Lot Of

• Elizabeth Filips
• Rian Doris
• Thomas Flight
• exurb1a