Author chronicles her global zen adventure

AT PAGE ONE: Natalie Goldberg will discuss “The Great Spring: Writing Zen and This Zigzag Life” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11.

Goldberg, “a writer both energized and enlightened” (Julia Cameron), shares those vivid moments that have wakened her to new ways of being. We follow alongside her mapless meanderings in the New Mexico desert and her pilgrimages to Bob Dylan’s birthplace and to Larry McMurtry’s dusty Texas ghost town of rare books.

Page One is at 5850 Eubank NE,. Call 294-2026.

AT BOOKWORKS: John Nichols will talk about “My Heart Belongs to Nature” at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 13.

Nichols records his 45-year connection to the Taos Valley and its mountains, where he still lives. The author fell in love with nature as a child when his father and grandfather, both naturalists, taught him the names of the flowers and trees, the herons and butterflies they encountered on walks in rural Long Island, N.Y.

Nichols has published four other photo/essay books, as well as four additional works of nonfiction and 13 novels, including the classic “The Milagro Beanfield War.”

Bookworks is at 4022 Rio Grande NW. Call 344-8139.

Friends for the Public Library will hold their monthly used book, CD and DVD sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 13, in the basement of the Main Library, 501 Copper NW. Admission is $2, free after 1 p.m. and free for members and children. The group will also hold its twice-yearly $5-a-bag clearance sale from noon to 4 p.m. May 14, at the Main Library. Admission is free.