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I keep losing my place as I switch between physical copy & e-book, although rereading a couple pages each time isn't really a problem." — Apr 23, 2026 08:37PM
"Interesting for sure.
I keep losing my place as I switch between physical copy & e-book, although rereading a couple pages each time isn't really a problem." — Apr 23, 2026 08:37PM
The Ancestor
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It was a cold, sunny December morning, the sky so bright that the envelope glinted like a mirror in my hand.
“It's easy to identify with all the places we've been hurt and abandoned, but can we identify with the timeless wholeness that weathers every abuse, every condition? (Bonnie Myotai Treace)”
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“Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils.”
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
“Can you imagine how many more people today would be happier, more stable, better contributors to the world, if only their fathers had been actively present in their childhood?”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Patience is essential on the spiritual path, but delay is not. Patience invites the timeless back in, and practicing becomes a waking game, not a waiting game, because patience is the state of full wakefulness. (Rodney Smith)”
― The Best Buddhist Writing 2011
― The Best Buddhist Writing 2011
“Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular science, but sometimes I prefer not to think about all that energy and chaos around my precious findings.”
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
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