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“This familiar, comparative idea of normal is so common that perhaps it feels timeless and universal, but it wasn’t until around 1840 that the word was even used to describe human qualities in European languages. (Prior to that time, normal referred to being perpendicular or square, a technical term that would have been used, for example, by a carpenter.)”
― What Can a Body Do?
― What Can a Body Do?
“At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.”
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“Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.”
― Running & Being: The Total Experience
― Running & Being: The Total Experience
“Children, language, lands: almost everything was stripped away, stolen when you weren’t looking because you were trying to stay alive. In the face of such loss, one thing our people could not surrender was the meaning of land. In the settler mind, land was property, real estate, capital, or natural resources. But to our people, it was everything: identity, the connection to our ancestors, the home of our nonhuman kinfolk, our pharmacy, our library, the source of all that sustained us. Our lands were where our responsibility to the world was enacted, sacred ground. It belonged to itself; it was a gift, not a commodity, so it could never be bought or sold. These are the meanings people took with them when they were forced from their ancient homelands to new places.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Urbanism Book Club
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— last activity Oct 13, 2011 06:45PM
A group for the exchange of books and ideas about cities.
Urban life / Life in the city
— 18 members
— last activity Mar 12, 2013 01:25PM
For readers of fictional books, narrating about city life world wide.
geography and planing
— 10 members
— last activity Jan 11, 2009 11:04PM
this group specified for all student in geograohy and rural or urban planning and the other related sciences, every body can being member in this grou ...more
Improvised Book Club
— 6 members
— last activity May 03, 2010 09:33PM
Read along with Phoenix's Improvised Book Club, and then visit The Torch Theatre on the last Sunday of each month to watch a discussion and improvised ...more
Leadership Thinking
— 55 members
— last activity Sep 16, 2017 04:46PM
Thinking about the hard stuff. Growing, developing, and becoming a 21st century leader.
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