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I like the Dallas Willard quote, but I don't know that climate change is a problem in human life as Willard describes. I view that more as a problem of humanity, or at least created by humanity.

I also struggle with the phrase "take your faith more seriously," as my entire growing up years involved me internalizing that concept to the point of crippling legalism. I want to follow Jesus more devotedly.

Dr. Lindsay Gibson is the GOAT! THE GOAT!

I'm reading this to my mom, who's currently critically ill on a ventilator in an ICU, and she nodded when I asked if she was enjoying it. I'm glad it's making this extremely difficult time slightly less so for both of us.

I've heard much of what's already been covered before in other books and through personal experience, but with the point I'm in my life and where we are culturally, this makes me want to go back to college and get a women's history degree while I still can.

Jack definitely experienced hardship but he sounds like a nightmare of a husband, save physical abuse.

So the executive branch has been abused for decades, it was just more clandestine (or opening admittedly, depending) in the past. And the America-as-good-guy thing isn't just something I failed to decode as a kid; it's what everyone is taught. Ugh.

Raise your hand if you were called a "Carpetbagger" by classmates after you were unwillingly moved to the former Confederacy as a child and it made you an even prouder Midwestern native. 🙋‍♀️

Of course Woodrow Wilson was an even worse person and President that I already knew (and I already knew he was a militant racist and nativist). Ugh

I had to pause reading to order the book so I can mark it up and take notes

I'm probably finding this more infuriating and devastating than I would have last year due to the destruction and violence of the current regime, but man the road that led the US here from the actions of people motivated by greed and courting people who think they're acting in the name of God. I had no idea Timothy McVeigh was radicalized after Waco because of right wing media. I'm so sick.

Just so happy to return to my beloved Anne. 🥰

I also have always found my mother to be disinterested and impossible to connect with, and she wasn't even rich OR famous