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Every day
Every time I go to CVS, there he is. Sitting outside. Is he sitting out in the pouring rain today? Once, on a bitter winter day, I saw his wheelchair in the lobby of the store. Did a kind employee invite him in? Or did they simply not notice him, too busy with customers?
One time, as I offered him my usual, useless, helplessly friendly nod, he asked if I could spare some change. Stooped in his
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Can’t decide three stars? Or four? Atmospheric and tragic and full of terrible images of war, seen through a dog’s eyes. |
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This is Christina's best book to date. She handles sensitive material beautifully. She manages to show the civil war as felt by families, and portrays complex disagreements about slavery within southern families. ...more |
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“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it “quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“The job of the decision maker wasn’t to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“In an interview I did with David Brooks in 2019, the genially conservative New York Times columnist reflected on the social agony criticizing Trump had caused him. “I had been part of the conservative movement my whole life,” he told me. “The Weekly Standard. The Wall Street Journal National Review Washington Times. Suddenly, I wasn’t the kind of conservative all the other conservatives were, and so my social circles drifted away.”
― Why We're Polarized
― Why We're Polarized
“Do I know how to love, how not to harm, how to protect and defend, how to be sanctuary? I have believed from the moment I gave birth to Alex and Benjamin, my kept children, that I know the obligations of a mother’s love. My two young sons are growing up inside their trust in me. I try so hard to be a good mother. I am safety, tenderness, praise. But I am also, always, the child cast out to the world a long time ago. I move between the sorrows of my past and an unrelenting will to love my children well. I am child, and I am mother.”
― Without a Map: A Memoir
― Without a Map: A Memoir
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