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“All successful life is adaptable, opportunistic, tenacious, interconnected, and fecund.”

“Mom was a Democrat until 2008.”

“…Harriet Tubman and Ronald Reagan walked this earth at the same time.”

So happy my honey is reading this series to me.

“We mistake hurting other people with healing ourselves.”

Exploration

“We can get ready. That’s what we’ve got to do now — get ready for what’s going to happen. Get ready to survive it. Get ready to make a life afterward. Get focused on arranging to survive so we can do more than just get battered around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don’t know what they’re doing.”

Huitaca: Muisca goddess of sex, drunken, and a really good time

My honey is reading the series to me.

Ch 15

My honey has decided to read the entire series to me!

I have forgotten my envy of others
Since I found my sacred company.
—Sri Guru Granth Sahib

“Listening does not grant the other side legitimacy. It grants them humanity—and preserves my own.”

DNF. Depressing and brutal.

Ch 18

I’m so utterly confused by this character that I have to switch to something else right now.

Eve Ensler’s alchemy of the apology:
1) willingness to wonder about oneself and why they caused the harm
2) willingness to wonder how the other person felt in their suffering
3) admit what was done in a specific and detailed way
4) do the work of reparation

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