Stephen Waszmer

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“ At one side of the creek, she builds a small cairn of stones underneath a large, oak tree. “In remembrance of Aunt Beca,” she says. “Thank you for all the things you taught me. For all the times you listened when I needed someone to talk to. For all the love and support you offered me.”
― Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

tags: family, family-life, grateful, grief, listening, loss, memory, page-turner, passion, support

123 likes

“Senator Collins and Speaker Bowling are two cuts or more above typical politicians. If all politicians modeled their examples, we’d have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
― Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

tags: curriculum, educational-reform, government, leadership, policy, public-service, responsibility, the-three-rs, tradition, values

73 likes

“6. Before there was any more discussion Fowler pulled his long knife from his belt and prised open the lid of the chest. There was a gasp of astonishment from the company. Where there should have been clothes, there was the Empress Sylva, curled up in a foetal position. She cursed. So near, but still so far.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

tags: fiction-fantasy, historical-fantasy

35 likes

“Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a riot of purple blooms scaled the right side of the house, and the heady scent of gardenias saturated the air.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

tags: gripping, longing, patriarchal-society, perseverance, political-fiction, regret, social-justice, tropical-island, u-s-puerto-rico-relations, vivid

110 likes

“Nothing can invade our being without our permission. It is energetically impossible. We can be confident in our eternal being of infinite abilities of every kind, limited only by our imagination, emotional spectrum and personal beliefs and perspectives. These are all things that can be resolved, as our conscious awareness greatly expands in understanding and can create experiences in the spectrum of beauty, joy and love.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness