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She would have been the best president!!

Love this book…savoring every prompt!

Gave up on this one…started listening…the abuse was too much for me.

Absolutely perfect! I will never forget Sybil Stone Van Antwerp.

This is a must read!!!

Cheryl gave me this book after finding it on her mom’s bookshelf. First chapter is fantastic! Already thinking about who I can buy this for

“FTS tattoo @ 80!” I might have to do this 🤭

Already found a favorite quote…

“Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of

especially when the entire human race is in it together “

“The grave is a shock.
A deep, dark rip in the earth,
As if made by the careless slash
Of a giant claw.” 231

Absolutely perfect memoir of a fascinating life…my only regret is that I borrowed this book from the library so I couldn’t underline all the sentences that moved me…

Adding one here so I don’t forget it…
This is the last line in chapter called Equatorial Light, “what saved me was stopping the struggle.”

“What is life but a progression from pimples to wrinkles, but for the getting of wisdom?”

“Yoga = to engage in a relationship with something to bring about positive change.”

Home …

“I pretended because, when I was pretending. I had given myself something to do.”

We were inessential in every way. …That was the irony - we needed the idea of Hawaii more than it needed us.

…age is a different continent, as long as he was with Charles, he would be moored there.”

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.”

I’m savoring every word in this book...

Favorite quote today “invite an ethic of reciprocity and gratitude into your rewilding. It affirms that everything is connected and that when we take, we have a responsibility to give back, so that the equilibrium of living communities stays in balance.” (106)