book & film recs
(my favorites)
Books & Authors
In no particular order or ranking, these are the books that have changed my life as I know it and supported my journey the most.
The Power of Now / A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Eat Pray Love / Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Exquisite Risk by Mark Nepo
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
If The War Goes On by Herman Hesse
His Dark Materials / The Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Films
Dare to Be Wild (2018)
Interstellar (2014)
Inception (2010)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Avatar (2009)
The Holiday (2006)
Almost Famous (2000)
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
P.S. I Love You (2007)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Tick Tick Boom (2021)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
Good Grief (2024)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Series
Sense 8
Outlander
Chef’s Table
Queer Eye
Killing Eve
Black Doves
Lessons in Chemistry
middle of nowhere west California, 2023
excerpt from my poem, Synonymous
Golden Threads on Isle of Mull, Scotland, 2025