What's by my bed?

Well, books, of course! But I didn't realize how many until I took a look today. No wonder I've been having trouble getting in and out of bed! Actually, this happens frequently, and I go through the same ol' routine--look closely and return the ones to my study that I'm obviously not getting around to reading anytime soon. I got ready to do that this morning, but decided to list them on my blog before clearing them out for the next "flood." So, here goes:

Monet to Dali - the catalog for the exhibit that I'm using for my workshop in April
Heart to Heart, by Jan Greenberg (on ekphrastic writing)
the everyday work of art, by eric booth
Just Looking: Essays on Art, by John Updike
Essential Reiki, by Diane Stein
Essential Psychic Healing, by Diane Stein
The Reiki Touch, by William Lee Rand
Crones Don't Whine, by Jean Shinoda Bolen
Goddesses in Older Women, by Bolen
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Matsuo Basho
Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, by David McFarland (I'm teaching myself Dreamweaver so I can create and maintain my own website--slow going)
The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition
Pausing for Beauty, the Heron Dance Daybook and Planner for 2007 (empty, but I may use it for art journaling)
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves, by James Hollis
Animal Speak, by Ted Andrews
Soul Mapping, by Nina Frost, et al.
SoulCollage, by Seena Frost
The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Chakras, by Anodea Judith
PlanB: Further Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott
The Feminine in Fairy Tales, by Marie-Louise Von Franz
The Book of Runes, by Ralph Blum
The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous)
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Poems by Mary Jo Bang
The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
Coyote Medicine, by Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Wabi Sabi: The Art of Everyday Life, by Diane Durston
Writing the Memoir, by Judith Barrington
Storycatcher, by Christina Baldwin
Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers, by Carolyn See
The Dead Beat: the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, by Marilyn Johnson (I'm preparing to teach a workshop on writing memoir in a cemetery)
Your Life as Story, by Tristine Rainer
a Spanish-English Dictionary
Birthday calendar book (still blank)
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance, ed. by Victoria Zackheim
one copy each of National Geographic, Reiki News Magazine, The New Yorker (winter fiction issue), Shambhala Sun, and Somerset Studio
Roethke: Collected Poems
Poetry as Healer, by Jack Leedy
Poetic Medicine, by John Fox
Biblio/Poetry Therapy, by Arlene Hynes
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, ed. by Maxine Hong Kingston
Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace, by Stephen Levine
Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing, by Susan Wooldridge
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Old Age, by Helen Luke
Wabi Sabi for Writers, by Richard Powell
Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Uses of Enchantment, by Bruno Bettelheim
The Portable Jung, ed. by Joseph Campbell
An Intimate Look at the Night Sky, by Chet Raymo
Look at the Sky...and tell the weather, by Eric Sloane
Merton's Palace of Nowhere, by James Finley
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals, ed. by Hart and Montaldo
When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King
The Seasons of a Restless Heart, by Debra Farrington
A Circle of Quiet, by Madeleine L'Engle
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Holy Bible, New International Version
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury (a borrowed copy that I need to return, although I read only half of it)
My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers
The New Testament in Modern English, trans. by J. B. Phillips
Of Other Worlds: Essays & Stories, by C. S. Lewis
5 crossword puzzle books in various stages of completion
2 sketchbooks and a collection of drawing pencils and felt pens in a canvas bag
5 journals, including my Dream journal with the lighted pen attached
2 fountain pens
various pencils and pens
2 yellow highlighters

Some of these were on the floor, some on the night table. I've thought of putting a bookshelf by my bed, but then I'd have to decide which books got the privilege of living there. Maybe I should just move my bed into my study!

I've now moved about half the collection back to the study, but it probably won't be long until another stack takes over the floor. Sigh!