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“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day, in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you’d never know which were which?” / this stopped my heart considering events from today

“I wonder if, like newborn children, we go through our entire lives looking for a face, longing for a particular gaze that calms and fills us, that loves and welcomes us, that recognizes and runs to greet us.” ❤️

Lots of sweet moments so far plus I’m genuinely intrigued by Theo.

“…her voice was sun on the grass.”

Warm, inviting, charming, beautiful.

Every time we prepare food we interrupt a life cycle. We pull up a carrot or kill a crab—or maybe just stop the mold that's growing on a wedge of cheese.We make meals with those ingredients and in doing so we give life to something else. It's a basic equation, and if we pretend it doesn't exist, we're likely to miss the other important lesson, which is to give respect to both sides of the equation.So we start here.

Starting The Horse and his Boy

“…what matters is not so much what we are, or what we have been, but what we are in the process of becoming.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” C. G. Jung

Glorious. Perfect.

This one is growing on me.

Not sure about this one yet. I’m impressed by the sheer number of times Salinger has used “goddam” and “crumby,” though.

A delight ♥️

My goal is to finish this important book (that I’ve shied away from when it got too spot-on, I confess) before the end of the year.

“‘Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,’ said Scrooge. ‘But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change…’”

‘‘Tis the season and it’s on my reading list