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Becki is Currently Reading

Becki is currently reading

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause

by Naomi Watts

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Mar 01, 2026 01:08PM

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Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times

by Elizabeth Oldfield

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Jan 25, 2026 03:48PM

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The Kids Who Aren't Okay: The Urgent Case for Reimagining Support, Belonging, and Hope in Schools

by Ross W. Greene

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Becki’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations by Sarah Stewart Holland

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we have to believe—especially as people of faith—that we can come to “equally faithful, yet different, conclusions” in politics and in the voting booth.

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“But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to. There’s a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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“Sometimes the holiest work is not to pray them into the light, but instead to join them in the dark.”
― Sharon Brous, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

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“She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“When someone asked Maharaj-ji how to meditate, he said, “Meditate the way Christ meditated. . . . He lost himself in love.”
― Ram Dass, Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart

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“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity,” she said simply. “It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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