My nose in a book

It's shoulder season for most of us mortal climbers. For the likes of Rapheal or Gadd perhaps they are looking for anorexic smears of ice or considering rock routes as winter ascents. I did take in a slideshow by Rapheal in Banff last weekend. It's always humbling to see what the big boys are attempting, and congrats to Will who completed probably soon to be a Yam classic for climbers able/willing/crazy enough to tackle multi-pitch 5.13 climbing on Yam. Bolted Smolted, its Yam for goodness sake eeeeyyyuk!

However back on earth where I reside climbing will wait for a couple more weeks. In the meantime I have another passion that needs constant attention. Reading. The reading list for Leadership Calgary as I mentioned is comprehensive. My trips to the book store has been unsuccessful so I eventually got on to the Indigos/Chapter website where there is more selection. Ah the joys of online shopping, click, click, click into the cart goes your virtual purchases. I think it should be a cash register sound instead... cha-ching!

But the beauty of it all in a couple short days there was a package sitting at my doorstep and my books have arrived. Oooeeeee! (and this is a good exclamation as opposed to the eeeeyyuuk)

I had forgotten which books I had purchased so it was a new adventure all over again pulling the books out of the box:

• The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
• Thinking Body, Dancing Mind
• Thought Contagion: When Ideas Act Like Viruses
• Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity
• Solving Tough Problems: "An Open Way to Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities"
• The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations
• Ideas
• Great Deluge
• What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
• A Brief History or Progress

I think I'll be busy for awhile!!