List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?

Here are three, three books of maybe 33 books that have meant something to me, s

Still do,

Stayed with me, re-read still, decades later, seeking more goodness from the words, stories, insights,

THE PROPHET, book of poems about life, by Lebanese poet, Khalil Gibran

THE OHLONE WAY, book about the Indigenous people that inhabited the San Francisco Bay Area before the Europeans and Asians arrived.

FRST CORINTHIANS, a New Testament book based on the first letter the early Christian disciple Paul is said to have written to the church in Corinth (in modern-day Greece), formative Christian ideas about love and living as Jesus taught.