Chris

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“Once we start appreciating that knowledge isn't all in the head, that it's shared within a community, our heroes change. Instead of focusing on the individual, we begin to focus on a larger group.”
― Steven Sloman, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

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“Most experts love the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise, especially when their contribution is acknowledged. Contributing to the community of knowledge is in our collaborative nature.”
― Steven Sloman, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

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“Life is prolonged when you walk. Walking expands time rather than collapses it.”
― Erling Kagge, Walking: One Step at a Time

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“A small 'self' suffers and causes suffering, [while] a love of the living world lets single identities and selfhoods expand and encompass other beings, entities and whole landscapes, such that the self becomes a spacious thing.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

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“I like to think about storytelling in terms of superheroes, because I believe that a person who can speak in an entertaining and engaging way to a group of people possesses a superpower that is sorely lacking in the world today. As people's gazes continue to fall to their screens and communication is truncated into bite-size text messages, the human beings who can still hold the attention of an audience and teach and speak in an entertaining way possess and enormous power. . . .

Storytellers have a superpower. They can make people feel good and whole and right. They can inspire and inform. They can make people see the world in a new way. They can make people feel better about themselves.”
― Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

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Johnson County Library Teen Reading Club — 294 members — last activity Sep 28, 2013 07:14PM
Summer Reading for Teens has moved! Join us at our new home to win great prizes like a Kindle Fire HD and jump passes to Skyzone!

Bookbent — 42 members — last activity Feb 22, 2016 05:13AM
What’s your bent? We're an online bookclub for teens talking about LGBTQ books. Don’t worry about trying to get someplace at a special time—we’re alwa ...more

JCL Library Staff — 4 members — last activity Aug 24, 2009 11:52AM
This is an experimental group for staff from the Johnson County Library!

Kansas City Public Library — 325 members — last activity Nov 13, 2015 07:36AM
The Kansas City Public Library is dedicated to building and serving a community of readers.

Guy's Book Club — 43 members — last activity Dec 01, 2017 08:25PM
I made this so there would be a group made specifically for guys who don't want to hear girls chatter on about which fictional character they would ra ...more

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