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First, having to re-explain the idea allows the original team to get clear with one another about what they decided, even allowing them to iterate while they present to new people. Second, and more obvious, it provides a source of fresh,
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“Because if you picture other people like you, you will no longer be alone. And when you share, you see that your own sorrow is not so big or special. You are only another person feeling sad, and soon it will pass and you will be another person, feeling happy. It takes the sting out of life, I find, when you realize you are not alone.”
― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
“It has been everywhere, my happiness— when my mother sang for me to dance, when my father took my hand to keep me safe—but it was such a small, plain thing that I mistook it for something ordinary and failed to see. We expect our happiness to come with a sign and bells, but it doesn’t.”
― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
― The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
“He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a little of them as he went. He had neglected so many things that he owed this small piece of generosity to Queenie and the past.”
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Around the World in 80 Books
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Annual Nonfiction Reading Challenge
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Welcome to the 6th Annual Nonfiction Reading Challenge! There are 12 prompts for the challenge. For each prompt, read a nonfiction book and share you ...more
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