Sign in with Facebook
Alonna Shaw’s Followers (14)
509 books
|
16 friends
94 books
|
525 friends
815 books
|
2,426 friends
1,564 books
|
3,204 friends
675 books
|
563 friends
283 books
|
236 friends
847 books
|
2,875 friends
877 books
|
4,994 friends
More friends…
Alonna Shaw
Goodreads Author
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Rod Serling, Max Perkins, Shirley Jackson, George Orwell, F. Scott Fit
...more
Member Since
August 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alonnashaw
The Weight of Letting Go of Who I Was Carrying Around
My paintings traveled with me through many seasons of life—this is the story of setting them free
Zepher, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 x 2 in, (1994)The Weight of MemoryToday, I begin the goodbye process by asking family and friends if they would like to take any of my paintings into their homes because I’m letting them go.
Zepher, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 x 2 in, (1994)The Weight of MemoryToday, I begin the goodbye process by asking family and friends if they would like to take any of my paintings into their homes because I’m letting them go. I’ve moved more than many times since creating my oil paintings back in my mi
Read more of this blog post »
|
Eleven Sundays
—
published
2012
—
5 editions
|
|
|
We R What We 8 consumerism: reshaping thought
—
published
2017
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Alonna’s Recent Updates
|
Alonna Shaw
wrote a new blog post
|
|
“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls "flow")”
―
―
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― A Life For A Life
― A Life For A Life
Short Story Connect
— 1469 members
— last activity Dec 11, 2025 07:51AM
Short Stories: Small word count, BIG impact. Short Story authors and readers need a hub strong enough to support the power of the short story. Help us ...more
