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The funeral for the sweet pea ---hilarious!

“…and what is time, but cumulative loss?”

well said for a book that seems to stretch into eternity. I’m 18 hours into the audio book with only 13.5 to go.🙂‍↕️

I know everyone finds humor in different things, but this isn't for me.

When the "chaos" and conflict is totally avoidable by simply saying "no thank you" I end up annoyed instead of amused.
If the MC just grew a spine, she could avoid about 90% of the suffering she is enduring.

Do not do a thing you cannot undo, until you have considered well what you cannot do once you've done it.

My go-to karaoke song (I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor) has been sung in the meet cute.
Sold.

Ugh...covid 19 casually makes an entrance.
Why.

"How wonderful a thing to find one's friends."

MC is single-handedly providing gossip for an office full of weirdly close co-workers.

Now THIS is dystopian. Excellent so far.

The ability to discern and question, which is crucial to both journalism and democracy is also determined by education.

Journalists and news organizations are a reflection of the people’s power to hold its leaders accountable.

That means that ultimately, the quality of a democracy can also be seen in the quality of its journalists.

Because what good is news without girlfriends?

"Never is over."

Well that didn't take long...why did I think I would get through this book without crying?

But where did it come from, this wanting disease? From how I got born, or the ones that made me, or the crowd I ran with later?

Everybody warns about bad influences, but it’s these things already inside you that are going to take you down. The hopeless wishes that won’t quit stalking you.

Some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you and stay.

"When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change it all."

Weeping.

"When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change it all."

Weeping.

"When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change it all."

Weeping.

Wow, King James (yes, that one) reeeeally hated women.

Already crying.

“But it is all hindsight. All these lessons, learned too late. Insights discovered decades later.
And so much lost as a result.”

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pray for me.🙏🏼

Make Introverts Leaders Again

Was not expecting a reference to the simple living of Mennonites. Sadly, the smart phone addiction has come for most, but I like that Newport has found a few who are still living without screens.
It's true that being a "conscientious consumer" is a big part of Mennonite values, for which I'm grateful.

Seeing what all the hype is about. 😌

This isn’t a theological work, so I was pleasantly surprised on the thoughtful study of how extroversion has affected the evangelical church’s teaching on what it means to be a Christian. Where introversion is interpreted as weakness (especially in men), a higher premium will be given to “charismatic leadership” even if other character qualities are lacking.

Hardly started and I'm already tearing up.
Already know this one is a winner.

Inspired to use more bicarbonate of soda.

“Only the burnt corpses of books lit the sky.”

In a gift economy, the prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.