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“There is something so pleasingly pure about having a task to be accomplished and then accomplishing it. It is the exact opposite of writing, and pretty close to the opposite of teaching. In both writing and teaching, nothing is ever finished, only finished enough to let go.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“When you give yourself wholly to a piece of ground, its goodness enters your bloodstream like an infusion. You will never be alone the same way again, and never quite dislocated. Your heart will grow down into and back out of that ground like a tree.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen. It lives in the houses where we’ve slept, the kitchens where we’ve cooked, in the food we’ve prepared for the people we love and in the walls we have shaped with our hands.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That’s the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts. But it isn’t dead yet and neither are we. Are we going to drop the earth off at the vet, say goodbye at the door, and leave her to die in the hands of strangers? We can decide, even now, not to turn our backs on her in her illness. We can still decide not to let her die alone.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Joyce’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joyce’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
82 books
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19 friends
354 books
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2 books
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0 books
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40 friends
0 books
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15 friends
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