Quote: I found a lonely box with only one book left inside. I picked up the book and it was "Understanding the Enneagram". !!
I make my living rummaging through books at rummage sales etc. In addition to the books I can actually sell for some money, I've been accumulating quite a little pile of books about the topics we discuss on this BB. The thing that kind of freaks me out is the kind or problems we all are experiencing are recognized and discussed in books I have from the 1920's and the 1970's but the "solutions" to the problems offered differ quite a bit. I have to try and avoid having the depressing thought that maybe it's a bit arrogant to believe that we live in a magical era of progress in which a problem that people have faced since the dawn of the institution of marriage has finally found a solution in the recently published books we've all been reading and discussing.
BTW: In one of the enneagram books I bought, I read that Type 7 s are most closely associated with the stereotypical Irish personality type. That makes sense if you think about the institution of the wake.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
