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chronic illness—mental or physical—is to a large extent a function or feature of the way things are and not a glitch; a consequence of how we live, not a mysterious aberration.
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.”
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
― The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
“Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?
A: You already are an animal.”
― Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
A: You already are an animal.”
― Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
“The garden is an unhappy place for the perfectionist. Too much stands beyond our control here, and the only thing we can absolutely count on is eventual catastrophe.”
― Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
― Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
― My Side of the Mountain
― My Side of the Mountain
Blaiseboles’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Sports, Thriller, and Travel
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