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Grandma Marciniec gave me Tuesdays with Morrie after reading it herself.

Morrie, Mitch's old professor, is dying, but looking at life positively, treating it like he is giving his final class on death, to the very end. He stresses the importance of human relationships. I agree.

Tuesdays with Morrie is a small book and super easy reading, so it was relaxing and nice while also uplifting for me--and probably for grandma too, as we had both recently lost someone close to us. It's a good book for making sense of death and life without too much mental strain.

My take on The Celestine Prophecy after reading it is that true to stereotype it is one of those quasi-philosophical, quasi-spiritual and somewhat hokey self-development books, but one which nevertheless offers up some nuggets of wisdom I've been able to apply to myself. One of these is to notice so-called coincidences and draw meaning out of them. Another is how "control dramas" (the author divides them into four: intimidator, interrogator, aloof, and poor-me) can be used to characterize personality types (in a manner that could be considered too much overgeneralization, I must admit). The lesson is that if we identify the "control drama types" of our parents we will be better able to understand our own roles as carrying on their good while overcoming their bad legacies--and then uniting these control dramas into the new self we are as a result.