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The Wonderment

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (Goodreads Author)

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Write What You Don't Know: 10 Steps to Writing with Confidence, Energy, and Flow

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You Better Be Lightning

by Andrea Gibson

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Quiet the Dead (Promise McNeal Mysteries #1) by Morgan James

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Savannah for a meeting. Synchronicity was meeting her at a critical time in my life. I believe what we call good luck, or even bad luck, or intuition, as well as psychic knowledge, and my sometimes-disturbing dreams, are all rooted in the ...more

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Kathy’s Quotes

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity

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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer

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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: poetry, wisdom

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“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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