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Life, Loss, and Puffins

by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Goodreads Author)

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Changing Planes

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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“may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

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“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day at numbness, silence.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

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“My father treated them with respect and kindness, his main philosophical and spiritual position being: Don’t be an asshole.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

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“Growing up is not going nearly as efficiently as I had hoped.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

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“Yet union with a partner—someone with whom to wake, whom you love, and talk with on and off all day, and sit with at dinner, and watch TV and movies with, and read together in bed with, and do hard tasks with, and are loved by. That sounds really lovely.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

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