“Enlightenment” For Her Now

“Enlightenment” For Her Now

I was reading an article in the The Charlotte Observer a few days ago and came across an article about Mary Tribble, age 48, of Tribble Creative Group. The article was titled, “King Bio is Timely; Buddhism Enlightens.”

During the holidays she was in a bad auto accident and has been recovering at home since then. Her friends and family know that she likes to read, typically fiction in the past, but one friend challenged her to read Bearing the Cross, the 800-page Pulitzer-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., by David Garrow, “to get a better handle on social justice and the continuing racial divide,” which she considered very timely in view of the inauguration of our nation’s first African-American president.

Tribble’s reading tastes have shifted from novels in the past few years to books “that bring me some kind of enlightenment.” One such book is Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by the “prolific Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön.” She has found this book to be very helpful, especially with the recent loss of her father. “She's really trying to teach you how to change your life by changing your patterns of thinking, your default reactions to adversity,” said Tribble, whose Tribble Creative Group handles events for big business and nonprofits.

After reading this article, I thought about how, with age, I have also changed my reading preferences to more meaningful reading vs. novels. This book sounds like a good read to me.