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Chapt. 1 - Clarity: Give Love Words
If one’s goal is self recovery, to be well in one soul, honestly and realistically confronting lovelessness must be part of the healing process.
Diane Ackerman
“A Natural History of Love
1978’s “The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck

“The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

Love is as loved as does.”

After watching, “Speaking Freely: The Love Trilogy ~ bell hooks - On Censorship and Care isn't Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bmn... - I picked up two or three of her books as my nephew Kyle has referenced her for years! Questioning everything we’ve been previously taught, and replacing false ideals with an education that nurtures spiritual, identity-building and interactive participatory spaces.

Chapter 15
James Burrows directs more by ear than by eye.
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9:15.45
Finding My Stride
My weirdness was appealing to the right people in the right way. Use everything about your quirks and they will become assets to certain corporate folks in the right lighting.
Like Sean Morissette’s Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day in Your Life, where he turned his puppeteering into many other jobs.

Constrictor Knot
I have to start binding myself to the bed - because it’s obvious there’s a version of me that wants to find the ocean; the least I can do is make it hard so far.

Also I predict wrong person is in jail.

Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they are finished with learning, that's when bitterness and disappointment can set in. As human beings, we by the very definition, can never be perfect. This means as long as we are alive and kicking, we can be improving ourselves. If we always have a project, no matter our age, to which we can apply ourselves, then we'll wake up every day with an object

Immediately listen to the first synopsis of this book as it was at the end of “Wild Dark Storm”, waited seven days and got the book. “Maybe it’s NOT the fishing but the FREEDOM, the ADVENTURE, the DANGER.”
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Samuel’s Dream ~ taking a skiff out with my line in all day with a bottle of wine; reading Keats.
Immediately seeing 4-5 common themes and character (flaws) between “Wild” - Beauties.

After finishing my second Freida McFadden aka Sara Cohen novel I checked other female Thriller writers; it’s astounding Gillian Flynn has only written three!! Not surprisingly, “Gone Girl” was, and remains, one of my favorite all-time thrillers.
So, while I’m waiting for a couple of other books to be available, I’m gonna charge through both of Flynn‘s books. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Libby audio books!!!

Absolute fan-FUCin-tastic Common Sense advice how to treat others, mutual admiration and praise for the dozens who got him there! Oh, and he’s getting funnier!!

MFM’s Hard-to-Kill Karen Kilgarrif and Georgia Hardstark would have a field day with Trisha getting involved with somebody with this many RED FLAGS but I know there’ll be twists. If it’s anything like the first book of McFadden’s that I read, “Dear Debbie” and P.L. is who I think s(he) is, and perhaps elements of Charlotte McConaghy’s “Wild Dark Shore”, then this will have some welcoming turns.

Ron Swanson is 88% Nick Offerman. Yet, far less laissez-faire attitudes when it comes to political or social involvement and far more of health-conscious regarding foodstuffs - though “Parks and Recs” entire slant on all things FOOD was hilariously warped.
Regardless, not quite as LoL funny as others Comedians’ Memoirs (only a quarter in), yet very insightful and I’m looking forward to more from Offerman.

One-fifth in and I’m not sure why the Perp is after a teen African American young woman? Perhaps land / property ownership? Inheritance?
Intrigued!
She’s shown Amelia Sach-like creativity in escaping UnSub initially and, should she live, it’d be great for her to possibly become part of the team 10 or 12 years from the time of this story…?

Fascinating Facts. Well written. Amazing survey of Chicagoan Histories.

I think I’m getting used to his SOPs, and the person that I believe to be the killer is someone that we’re not actually supposed to suspect. We’re following the red herring, while the real killer is closer to the good guys than we think. Also, they’ve managed to get rid of Del Rey, one of the best characters in the series, but I don’t really think he’s gone…Deaver’s SOPs ~ sometimes I’m right?

“Panic. Depression. Drought. Failure.” These are some of the things that caused many of the pioneers/Squatter Thieves to turn “Shack Wacky”, “Wandering Around From Pillar to Post” or
“Troubadours of the Prairie” 24-28% Meanwhile on the East Coast, thousands were becoming millionaires. https://www.blackhistory.com/2018/06/...

Kathryn Dance’s 1st appearance ~ such a great character!! Looking forward to Sach’s Lieutenant BadASS on her first solo case in another district, as well.

Wonderful accounts of life on the Prairies turns of the last century ~

Not surprisingly, Charles Ingalls was one of the Squatters allowed to steal land from The Osage while in Kansas. They left months before the abilities to buy 900 acres for $50 down on a total $330 (he’d already paid $35), yet hard to root for them?? In their defense, the Gub’MINT was saying it was awwww’rite, so technically they weren’t breaking any laws.

Pre-checking this out I realized I could read this without having read any of the other “Little House on the Prairie” books. Fascinating historical background to Laura Ingalls-Wilder’s “sugar-coated” Memoirs.

“Controversial” sexual habits of the late great king, commonplace throughout the globe just never read about it from Natan’s Scribe position; recording without judgment nor editorializing. Kind of like what journalists were 50 years ago?
“A Game of Thrones” made incest sexy?
Also, loving female perspectives, David’s 1st wife, which are less than non-existent in most religious historical texts.

I figured a shorter Nonfiction insight into Brooks’ worlds might illuminate her prolific body of work. Having grown up on an island, I’m right there with down her bittersweet memory lane.

While waiting for “Horse” and two others I started “The Secret Chord”. Not at all what I was expecting; fascinating view into Biblical characters.

“Shirley didn’t have a problem she’d only had a lifestyle.” ~
53%

A private tragedy not a public cataclysm.
Reflects Dr. Ellen Langer’s “A Tragedy or An Inconvenience” (on Mel Robbins’ Podcast)

Shirley Danglars reminds me of everything my favorite character, Katherine “Havisham” WAS 25 years prior!! I hope she survives!!
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57%
If I’d been incompetent I’d still have a job.

Even Smokes and mirror still have some traces of INTEL (22%)

Women were born Spooks.
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Careless ability of falling into oblivion. 24% [The OB]

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It could splinter you, such pressure. It could rob you of sleep, cheat you of dreams and surprise you into tears at your desk. (Lady Di) 43%

Very HILARIOUS ~ building nicely ~ equally intensifying!

I’m liking Jackson a bit more this time around ~ great opening set-up.

Not as good as “Down Cemetery Road”, but written with wit and humor; action has just begun so perhaps a redemptive ending?

“The yellows weren’t yellows; but white stained. The grays weren’t gray either, but black. Black with the stuffing knocked out of it.” Nothing is what it seems, and everything is blotched, blotted and broken.

Must read to better understand “Ironic Floss” ~ “Indifferent Unscapes” and the “Twilight World of Expedient Operations”. Getting better with every page!

Witty. Real. Love to hate characters. Hate to lose others.
So I saw Emma Thompson on The Graham Norton Show and immediately downloaded novel. The character she plays is only tangential in this 1st novel. PLUS “Slow Horses” since it’s by the same author. (Different Series)