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read in August 2012
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1st reading 2012: I'll be honest: I don't quite get the rave reviews about this book.I came into it with an almost completely blank slate. Didn't know anything about it, but wanted to read more Pevear/Volohonsky translations after loving their Anna K ...more "
The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap.
“All ministry begins at the ragged edges of our own pain,”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“There’s no dishonor in having a job. What is dishonorable is scaring away your creativity by demanding that it pay for your entire existence.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
― Varina
― Varina
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