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Penny’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Penny’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Penny Shutt’s Followers (3)
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Penny Shutt
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May 2012
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Bridgewatcher & Other Poems: Selected Poems from The Psychiatry Research Trust Poetry Competition 2013
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2014
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“I expect you’ve seen the footage: elephants, finding the bones of one of their own kind dropped by the wayside, picked clean by scavengers and the sun, then untidily left there, decide to do something about it. But what, exactly? They can’t, of course, reassemble the old elephant magnificence; they can’t even make a tidier heap. But they can hook up bones with their trunks and chuck them this way and that way. So they do. And their scattering has an air of deliberate ritual, ancient and necessary. Their great size, too, makes them the very embodiment of grief, while the play of their trunks lends sprezzatura. Elephants puzzling out the anagram of their own anatomy, elephants at their abstracted lamentations – may their spirit guide me as I place my own sad thoughts in new, hopeful arrangements. – A Scattering, Christopher Reid”
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“You are locked in a prison of your own nostalgia. You need to let go of the past.”
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“Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.”
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
― When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
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“So at family gatherings… I try to stick to the acceptable script. Indeed, I discover that the less I say, the happier everyone seems to be with me. I sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t have been better off as a paraplegic or afflicted by some tragic form of cancer. The invisibility and periodicity of my disorder, along with how often I border on normalcy, allows them to evade my need for their understanding. And because our most enduring family heirloom is avoidance and denial of pain and suffering, I don’t need much prompting to shut myself down in their presence.”
― The Buddha and the Borderline
― The Buddha and the Borderline
“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”
― Choke
― Choke
“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”
― Choke
― Choke
