Deborah L. Wolter

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (by Emmanuel Acho). Stepping out of our comfort zones is healthy. When we do, we expand our intellect, worldviews, and empathy to the wider world around our families and communities. Written in the style of pulling up a chair in a warm kitchen, this book is not at all…

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape Our Future (by Merlin Sheldrake) (Posted Tuesday, November 3, 2020) While this book is about fungi and mycorrhizal networks, Sheldrake made a brief discussion about complex adaptive systems. “…complex, because their behavior is difficult to predict from a knowledge of their constituent parts…