Manifesting ‘Shantaram’, plus My Actifit Report Card: December 8 2019

We (mrshill and I) went to my parents’ place for dinner tonight. We walked from home - according to Google maps it’s a one and a half hour walk. We each packed our 5 kg bags of rice along with a couple of books (in preparation for carrying 10 kgs + in Tasmania in January). We planned our walking route to pass two street libraries. These are essentially just little boxes of books on the side of the road. You’re free to take a book (or two) with the expectation that you replenish the box with the same number of books that you take. Along the way I asked mrshill what book(s) she hoped we might find. I suggested ‘Shantaram’ - this is an autobiography by Gregory David Roberts about his experience escaping from jail in Australia, fleeing to India and his subsequent life thereafter. It’s an epic book of over 1000 pages! I was reading it last year until I could renew it no more and had to return it to the library with still 100 pages or so still to read. mrshill also mentioned recently that she was interested in reading it.

Guess what book we found at the first street library? You guessed it ... ‘Shantaram’!! We also picked up ‘The witch of Portobello’ by Paulo Coelho, author of ‘The alchemist’. I was stoked. I think we’ll continue to use these street libraries in future. What a great resource for getting rid of books lying around at home you have no intentions to ever read again! Don’t get me wrong, of course there are some books you want to keep but most others you don’t and they just take up space! At the second street library there were only three unloved books so I kept the two I was carrying for our next street library adventure.

Exchanging ‘All that I am’ and ‘Snowdrops’ for ‘Shantaram’ and ‘The witch of Portobello’

Walking