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Lisa’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lisa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Lisa Sachs
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May 01
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Breaking the Fall
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E Pluribus Unum, 2019
The Skokie Festival of Cultures
Growing up in New York, one of my favorite activities was visiting the United Nations. I loved watching the Security Council meetings or any other meetings so that I could press the buttons on the headphones to hear people speaking in all the official U.N. languages. There were six buttons – for English, French, Read more of this blog post »
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
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“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”
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“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating,
approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”
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approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”
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“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
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Thank You Darlene. Now I know what that's about. Trump himself probably inspired this. If he wins the election, it will be an unmitigated disaster.
Lisa, Just read this article in the 'Huffington Post' and I thought you would find it interesting. I read a comment you made the other day wondering about this book and author and what was going on. This should help clear it up for you. I wasn't aware this was happening either.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/n...
Cheryl wrote: "Hi Lisa,Thank you for the friend request! Have a wonderful day today.
Cheryl"
You're welcome Cheryl. I also retired a few years ago and am looking forward to hearing about your experiences in retirement.
Hi Lisa,Thank you for the friend request! Have a wonderful day today.
Cheryl
You're welcome Ivonne. I look forward to exchanging ideas about books with you as time goes on.
Thank you so much for the Friend request. It will be nice to see your views on books.Cheers, Ivonne
Kristen wrote: "Nice to meet you, Lisa! Thanks for the invite!"You're welcome Kristen. It's nice to meet you, also.
Nice to meet you, Lisa! Thanks for the invite!
Hi John, I just finished reading an excerpt of your book and found it quite amusing. Do you have a blog?
Hi John, You're welcome. I'll look forward to hearing from you. Some of my recipes are original. When they are not, I state where I got it. The fruit soup recipe was my great-grandmother's. She was from Russia and she lived with us in the summers when I was growing up. My mother, daughter, and I reconstructed her recipe after we came home from Door County with sour cherries. I just tried making it again and it came out delicious. I intend to read your blog tomorrow. It sounds good. I love political satire. Did you get to Second City when you were here? They aren't as cutting edge as they used to be. I attended the book festival. It's a great event. If you let me know when you're coming to Chicago again, I can point you in the right direction. My husband is a docent for the Chicago Architecture Foundation (volunteer) and we love playing tour guide.
Hi Lisa,Thanks for the friend invite! I think your website is a very interesting idea - except the recipes make me hungry..... And the recipes are tempting in themselves. Are they original?
Funny thing is, I was recently in Chicago for the Book Festival and ate at the Russian Tea Room of course! My grandfather immigrated from the Ukraine and there is no such food anywhere nearby me. I was so delighted to find traditional vegetarian dishes.
You seem like a political animal. You might enjoy (if you have a heathy sense of humor) my book excerpted at www.cureyourdemocracy.com. Other excerpts are on Authorsden.com. I satire partisanship.
Look forward to reading more of your blog.
John
Thank you Lisa for the friend invitation. Many blessings to you.
Mina wrote: "Thank you very much for the add."You're welcome.
Thanks for your invitation. I greatly admire your profession.
Thank you for adding me as a friend. I just reviewed a book by a Chicago author. hehehehe Here she is:
Thanks for the friendship! Have an awesome week!
On my Facebook page, I have a friend with the name Lisa Rosenberg. There are apparently loads of us in NY and Chicago.
Hi Lisa, thank you for invitation
Over 50 years, I lived in Odessa, Ukraine
20 years ago before I left the city I knew very many Odessans, even more knew me (I was Polytechnic University professor)
Sol
