Manoratha

I remember loving you
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin: Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips
One of my all-time favorites and the best rendition I've heard. Single song worth the price of the CD. Beautiful lyrics, heartfelt melody.

Miu Bombom
Tania Alves: Todos Os Forros
Caught this on KKUP Cupertino one evening and discovered a whole new genre - Brazilian Forro music. Will get you moving.

Ripple
Grateful Dead: American Beauty
Brilliant tune...mystic lyrics...Grateful Dead

Old Time, New Times
Benton Flippen: Old Time, New Times
Had a chance to see him play live at the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention (believe he's 90 years old). Self-taught musician with a very unique (and lyrical) bow - reminds me in an odd way of Martin Hayes.

Tom Stoppard: Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 : Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood
At daughter's insistence, reading Arcadia.

Octavio Paz: In Light of India
Digging up an old favorite. Paz was the ambassador of Mexico in India and brings a poet's eye to his look at India.

Isaac Asimov: The Roving Mind
Short essays and columns from the master polymath.

John Kenneth Galbraith: A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Whittle)
Dusted off this one from my library (an old Penguin imprint). Acquired some 30 years ago, last read around 1999. Still good as ever - short and to the point. Consider "Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" for an alternate. (****)