Widening Circles, memoir by Joanna Macy. I picked it up as I was becoming interested in Buddhism and felt it would give me insight into from a “western convert

Widening Circles, memoir by Joanna Macy. I picked it up as I was becoming interested in Buddhism and felt it would give me insight into from a “western convert” perspective (it did). But it also opened my mind to environmentalism—not that I had been closed to it as such, just less interested. More unexpectedly, it opened my mind to unconventional romantic relationships. I remain, in principle if not actively in practice, polyamorous to this day. Even since, I’ve realized that I’m demisexual (which is on the asexuality spectrum), and the same part of the book which helped me embrace poly also helped me embrace demi and reconcile the two.