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Jan is Currently Reading

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Exploring Florida's Emerald Coast: A Rich History and a Rare Ecology

by Jean Lufkin Bouler (Goodreads Author)

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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)

by Janisse Ray (Goodreads Author)

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22145 likes

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: growing-older, solitude

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

tags: nature, poetry, solitude

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