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Sigh. Her family sucks

I like Eugene more than Mr gentleman… still lesser of two evils … WHO WEOTE THAT NOTE? I’m thinking baba’s evil jealous ass

Sigh … older men

Praise the lord baba is sent away everyone cheered. Mr. gentleman …. Lord ….

Again. HATE. BABA. HATE. HATE. HATE.

I hate baba so much it hurts. I hate her. I hate her.

Ok so I teared up a few times already but to be honest I don’t really know why. Everything stated is generic, but I think the raw honesty of her cynical nature is jarring. So human

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to read a fiction novel and get sucked into it like this.

Baba hate. Hate baba. Hate. I know she’s not meant to be liked but she irks me so bad. Also CINDY GAY ASS???

“Because you ask so much of us, as if it thick with anger. Do you know why I hate you? You and every were your natural right...Mark my words, for it can happen without a single word being uttered... it's how men look at us and smile at us. It's how they raise their hands. To put it simply, it's how they treat us...you'd lhave to be blind not to see how much confidence they have, and how stupidly they achieve it.”

This book so far is very easy to get lost in. We are following the main character until about page 50, where we are following the real main character which is a Turkish boy in his mid 20s living in 1920s Berlin. at first I thought the main love interest was a drag queen to be honest with you, but it’s just a very eccentric of which falls in love with. He actually fell in love with her portrait first, and her after.

wow

“ life is a gift we have only by giving it back again. “
“ we live as councils of ghosts. It is not “human genius“ that makes us human, but an old love, an old intelligence of the heart, be gathered to us from the world, from the creatures, from the angels of inspiration, from the dead — an intelligence merely nonexistence to those who do not have it, but to those who haven’t more dear than life “

sister Mariam is .. wow. thinking of the Earth, Gaia, as God is brilliant. the internal natural subconscious that isn’t unconscious is exactly what i’ve been pondering on for the past few years while studying religions. LUV HER.

the next transition was easy enough to understand but the jargon was crazy. noticing that some ecologists are snooty asf. the only chapter that matters is the last. “we can be inspired by this scientific view of nested interdependence— from galaxies and stars to planets and ecosystems— so that we sense how personally we are woven into the fabric of life”
despite this crappy chapter i luv the next though

the idea of the water scale is super cool. shows that even one person doing right by the earth can impact Her health positively

sobbed after the very first chapter. the way Chief Oren Lyons writes about natural law is so touching. mind you, he’s straight to the point, i just got overwhelmed with emotion hearing the native american point of view on the direction of our world. actually emotional. how we treat our children is a direct indication of global degradation. DONT BOO HIM, HES RIGHT!!!

from the intro:
“ the care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. to cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope “