Carol Kroll

Simplicity

I’ve been into reading lately. On my front porch no less. In the shade after the sun goes behind the house. After my real world work is done. I was running into some creative roadblocks on the music and art front and just needed a break that didn’t involve those things—-along with the internet or TV.

In fact, when TV is watched now, it’s only through hulu or Netflix, which has been very nice. Summer is good for such experiments like this. We only get a short amount of summer around here and even though I have a tough time with the hot weather, I still want to savor it while it’s here. The sunshine is something not to be taken for granted.

Reading has always been very therapeutic and comforting to me. It really forces me to exist in the present moment (and not worry about stupid crap like I tend to do)

I am a big Farley Mowat fan so currently I’m engrossed in No Man’s River.

I like to read his tales outside. It adds to the feeling of what is going on inside the book, since he wrote a lot about the Inuit people and their lives in the wilderness and I am fascinated by how they lived. He’s written many books, but I am trying to not read all at once. This title is proving very good though.