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Jim’s favorite books

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Parent's Tao Te Ching by William Martin Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Chuang Tzu by Zhuangzi A Path and a Practice by William Martin The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Shape of the Journey by Jim Harrison Walking by Henry David Thoreau Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Diary of a Century by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs
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You need the personal density that will hold you firmly until, in your considered and settled judgment, it is time to move. And to acquire the requisite density you have to get out of your transitory moment and into bigger time. Personal ...more
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“In these times, strange times that they are,” he says, “seeing someone do something that’s not patently selfish and fucked-up is like a breath of fresh air, good clean fresh air, not that any one of us would know good clean fresh air if a vial of it swooped down and bit us on the ass!”
― George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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