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Stone Yard Devotional

by Charlotte Wood (Goodreads Author)

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The View From Lake Como

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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife: A Novel

by Anna Johnston (Goodreads Author)

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Pat’s Quotes

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

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“Some things ought to exist outside capitalism, and wildness should be one of them.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: capitalism, eco-tourism, wild-places, wilderness, wildness

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“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

tags: forgetting-the-pain, forgetting-the-past, forgiveness, forgiving-is-not-forgetting, forgiving-others, letting-go, trauma, trauma-healing

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“Getting out is not giving up on someone when staying is giving up on yourself.”
― Thomas G Fiffer, Why It Can't Work: Detaching From Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love

tags: dysfunctional-relationships

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