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“That is the use of tradition. It telescopes history.”

Cute. Completely implausible, but fun to listen to while doing laundry.

“Let’s drop the war.”
“It’s very hard. There’s no place to drop it.”

Basically, Mormons and bureaucrats are ushering in demons.

“Chain restaurants are the ‘Murder She Wrote’ reruns of the food industry.” 😂

This book is so tedious.

“ I thought if you were educated, you didn’t have to do boring things,” I said to Juniper the day before.
“There are people who think like that,” Juniper had said. “Such a pity. Boredom is so valuable.” I could not imagine what she meant

“Pelagius? He who thinks we are good entirely by our own endeavors?” Juniper asked. “That man’s a fool.”

“Sometimes life is too difficult to be loved. So it’s better to be sick for a bit.”

“The only reason I’d be praying is because I’m desperate.”
“God likes desperate people to pray,” she said.
“How come?”
“Because they mean it.”

“Even good memories has a sadness to them, because they were memories.”

“Death, Grover had figured out, wasn’t really the funeral or the headstone or everybody saying how sorry they were. Death was a long, painful correction and thinking.”

Last journal entry: Beautiful blueberries.

I need to look up Everett Royce next. And then read more about John Muir.

Oh, wow. The princes were just as savage as the peasants. What a bloody mess.

I knew of the Peasant Revolt and how horrific it was and that Luther’s writings both caused and exacerbated it. But, I didn’t know much beyond that. This author gives a fascinating overview of what happened.