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Springtime is in full swing—here in the northern hemisphere, anyway—and it’s quite glorious. The flowers are blooming, the temperatures are...
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These long days out of doors feel like coming home to a place to which I've always held a key, but was told it should be put away. But, oh! There has been a sovereignty of self in this place--of body, of spirit, of the intangible magic which sews the two together. To shout and run. To lie in tall grasses and watch the wind play the sunlight both true and false. To feel the building threat of rain and watch it crash to earth from the tenuous safety beneath a tree rather than from behind a window.
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― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
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Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.
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― Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
― Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
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Welcome to our Good Reads group - a place where we keep track of our read along group progress a…more
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