"The storms are raging on a rolling sea/Down the highway of regret"

It feels like spring here and i've been musing on the feeling of regret. what would it be life to live a life in a way that you would have no regrets? and - what can i do to help myself to live *deep awake*? i want to be present in all these moments that are running past me so fast. and. i want to have a ... a good way of being in the world. a way of being that is healing.

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From Christian Early's syllabus:

A note on Mindfulness:
I am noticing that students are not giving themselves enough time to read and to think. Part of it is the busyness of everyday life. Philosophy is a slow discipline. 10 pages take 1 hour to read and sometimes 2 hours. What you get out of the reading depends on what you put in. It is ok to let your mind wander -- wanderings can be wonderful -- but you do have to take the time to follow along on the path of the author. It is well worth it. You’ll see.

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here are the books i have read since i've been at EMU (including some books used as textbooks and exluding the textbooky textbooks:

The Chosen - Chaim Potok
No god but God - Reza Aslan
*Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
Strengths Based Leadership - Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
The Land - Walter Brueggeman
Animal Vegetable Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry
Genome - Matt Ridley
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
On That Day Everyone Ate - ???
Jesus for President - Shane Claiborne
Nature out of Place - Jason & Roy Van Driesche
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Rosie - Anne Lamott
The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
*Jesus among other Gods - Ravi Zacharias
Democracy Matters - Cornel West
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years - Donald Miller
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
*Blood Brothers - Elias Chacour
Pluralism - William Connelly
*Beyond Gated Politics - Raymond Coles
The Elegence of the Hedgehog - ???

*Reading Now

Currently on my list:
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
The Shack - William P. Young
The Book of Images - Rainer Maria Rilke

Textbooks that I read enough of to qualify as a book:
Theology as if Jesus Mattered - Ted Grimsrud
Introduction to Christian Theology - Bradley Hanson
Invitation to Anthropology, 3rd Ed. - Eric Lassiter
Understanding Arabs - Margaret Nydell
Sabbath Economics - Ched Myers

Books I read a little bit of:
The Bhagavad-Gita
Buddhism: little pocket book