Charles Ponyik
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“I lived in a guest house on the monastery grounds, but spent all my time after breakfast with the Benedictines. My partners-in-crime were two other volunteers from the Great Lakes area. Charlie just finished his first year of college and Debbie was a teacher in her forties who was contemplating the next season of her life. We three were all very different but got along capitally in the specious guest house.”
― The Nun Diaries: Why I Was a One Year Nun
― The Nun Diaries: Why I Was a One Year Nun
“Far over misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE, German critic and poet”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
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