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Jim is Currently Reading

Jim B is currently reading

Simple Habits for Marital Happiness

by Randall Schroeder

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Sounding the Seasons enlarged edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for Christian Year

by Malcolm Guite (Goodreads Author)

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Family Vocation: God's Calling in Marriage, Parenting, and Childhood by Gene Edward Veith Jr.

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In the ancient world the ideal person was an independent man, with economic resources and political clout, a self-sufficient autonomous person. Yet in the Church this is reversed. There the ideal human being is a dependent person, someone ...more

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Jim’s Quotes

“We never get that age back again, when every friend is a childhood friend, we measure all infatuations throughout our lives against that.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“You don’t wish for happiness when you have lost the love of your life, because you can’t even imagine ever feeling happy again. All you wish for is peace, calm, a long night’s sleep. You dream of nothing but being able to forgive time for making us old. For not letting us stay on a pier with our best friends. For letting summers end.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“If you were his friend, I’m sorry. Because the whole world lost an artist, but you lost your human. And I’m sorry you had to share that with the rest of us. You should be allowed to have your grief in peace.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“People say that anxiety is fear for no reason, but Ted’s brain is very helpful when it comes to providing suggestions. Once he read a book that said that people with neuropsychiatric disorders need to “make friends with their brain,” but Ted and Ted’s brain are not friends, they’re classmates, forced to do a group assignment called “life” together. And it’s not going great.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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