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“I do not know Zen. I just know gratitude. I am grateful for the beauty in the midst of suffering. I am grateful for the treasure hunt through the minefield of life. Dangerous or not, I don’t want out of the minefield. Because truth, and beauty, and God are there.”
― Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
― Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
“Whether on paper or in my mind, the problems I had to deal with first—the car repair, the court date, the empty cupboards—went at the top, on the left. The next pressing issue went next to it, on the right. I’d focus on one problem at a time, working left to right, top to bottom.”
― Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
― Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
“Being scared isn’t an excuse to be racist. That’s just damn ignorant. You don’t call someone ‘brown boy’ or say he eats dogs just because he’s new to town and ‘unfamiliar”
― Brown Boy Nowhere
― Brown Boy Nowhere
“We work, we love, we do. And the stress of it all, the exhaustion, leaves us hollowed. Scraped out. Ghosts of our former selves.”
― Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
― Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
“And if you don’t see race, then you’re turning a blind eye on racial injustices. Because colorblind or not, racism does happen. And why be colorblind? We’re all different, and diversity is a good thing.”
― Brown Boy Nowhere
― Brown Boy Nowhere
Joan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
97 books
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74 friends
296 books
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1,699 friends
8,921 books
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510 friends
632 books
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1 friend
3,725 books
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459 friends
7,966 books
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2,165 friends
2,756 books
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2,468 friends
2,355 books
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5,000 friends
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Fiction and Non-fiction
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