Having Spent Life Seeking
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did the place you were in change how it felt?
Before you opened it, what did the title 'Having Spent Life Seeking' make you expect, and was the book warmer or sharper than you imagined?
Tempest writes about seeking as a whole way of living rather than a problem to be solved. Did that feel comforting to you, or a little tiring?
Was there a passage where the language itself (the rhythm, the sound of it) did more for you than the meaning? Read it to us if you flagged it.
This book keeps circling back to the idea of being known by other people. When in your own life have you felt most genuinely seen?
Tempest has spent a career writing about cities, ordinary streets, and the people in them. Did reading this make you feel more tender toward your own neighborhood?
By the time you reached the final stretch, had your sense of what the seeking was actually for shifted? You can answer without saying how it lands.
If you could sit down with someone you love and give them one feeling this book gave you, which feeling would you hand over, and who would get it?