Amanda H. > Recent Status Updates

What a well written book! The author has done an incredible job respecting and building on the source material.

I’m really learning a lot about Fire Nation culture, which makes the motivations & actions of Zhao, Azula, and Zuko more understandable. It also makes the behaviour of Iroh so much more astounding (in a good way)

It’s literally taken me half the book to realize that the two women don’t occupy the same space in time but rather the same building with different generations of the same family. 🙈😅

And we have a kiss! Good for them

Ouuu, that’s an interesting puzzle piece

“She didn’t say, You can’t be blamed for the occasional small-minded pigheaded idiot turning up on your nursing staff - it’s hard to cure people of ingrained cultural platitudes. But I knew that, like me, she was thinking it hard.

Chapter 33

AH; she has figured out how to exchange stones with the sea, and her solution is to figure out how to exchange her friend for herself?

I really enjoy how this author writes. One of the few that makes me laugh out loud.

“If someone can go about killing Gods, what hope is there for mortals?” - Lady Silver.
I’m sure it was meant literally but figuratively it’s quite the statement. When someone attacks the God/faith of someone else… they’re attacking that person’s source of hope.

"Songs and books went on and on about the pain of romantic relationships ending, but they hardly spoke about the death of a friendship. Sometimes, it was slow and soundless. Other times, it was like a crash of thunder against a clear sky. Shocking and quick. A different kind of heartbreak that was no less deep."

“Maybe we should stop expecting perfection from those we loved, the surest path to resentment and disappointment.”

I feel called out by chapter 6

1. lead with humility
2. smell like your flock
3. who am I to judge?
4. don't change - reinvent
5. make inclusion a top priority
6. avoid insularity
7. choose pragmatism over ideology
8. employ the optics of decision making
9. run your organization like a field hospital
10. live on the frontier
11. confront adversity head-on
12. pay attention to non-customers

The local church should be like a MASH unit/field hospital deployed after battle. Serving everyone without judgement and addressing the most harmful wounds first.

"Christians are called to do the great work of evangelizing to the ends of the world in a spirit of humility, rather than an attitude of conquering."

"Preaching the gospel requires humility, service, charity, & brotherly love. To approach evangelization with imperialism or an attitude of conquering doesn't work."

"Only those who serve with love are able to protect."

Leadership is the ability to communicate a vision, and to encourage others to carry it out.

Ah, so I was right

Huh, Rui and Yiran eh?

Titan is talking to one of the Kings of hell and has no idea 🙈😅