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I think if I had to choose a main take-away, I would say it was the story the author’s the data showed: the sheer number of “life disrupting” events that occur in the average person’s life is huge! And often! And the recovery is about 5-ish years each! To me, that essentially means all of life is a rollercoaster instead of a nap in a hammock. And that’s ok

Chapter 10: Central to the active writing there’s a process of growth. Of slowly gaining control of their narrative. On day one, participants tend to describe the event. By the last day, they give shape and purpose to it. The act of writing speeds up the act of meaning-making.

Chapter 10: Creativity thrives on isolation and disconnection. Studies of creativity for two decades Have found the consistent pattern, those facing adversity often suffer from social exclusion, a sense of being ostracized from society, and a feeling of being out of sync or out of touch with those around them. These attitudes intern give these individuals more freedom to take risks… outside the social mainstream

Chapter 9: …some people had to jettison some beliefs. Kate Hoag, after surviving the tornado, had to discard her view that God would solve every problem and begin to see God has being present, and relying on humans to be his hands.

Chapter 7: Sadness is almost the opposite of anger. While anger prepares us to fight, sadness prepares us to protect. Anger speeds the world up. Sadness slows it down. Sometimes bereaved people say that living with the sadness is like living in slow motion.

Chapter 2: on class, 36% of Americans move up the socioeconomic ladder in their lives, 41% move down.

Chapter 2 the average person moves 11.7 times in their lives. 2/3 of us live in a community other than the one they where they were born.

June 29: We would not have done it on the Sabbath, Miss, except Mr. Stanley says removing stains is the work of the Lord.
Well, it is, I’ll admit, a miracle.

June 28: she listened to the news of the arrival of the countess like a battlefield general. She moved herself to be in prime position for their entrance. It felt like a shadow of the Montagues and the Capulets. Only instead of swords there were smiles. Which, at times, can be more dangerous.

June 28: “There are worse things, Islington leveled philosophically. “Yes,” I allowed, “but there are also better.”

June 28: One should go away long enough to know the cotton-soft contentment of coming home

June 26: Later, I came across Isla walking the calendar hall burning sage. Brushing the smell of the smoke away from my face, “What, pray, are you doing?” Isla found it perfectly acceptable to say, “We always burn sage, Miss Lion, all through the house after Lady Maggie has been for a visit.” Feeling like the whole of Stonecrop has taken a deep breath, and begun anew, I continued on my way.

June 26: I liked certain aspects of Maggie well enough. I will allow myself one note: there was a sense that the freedom of all was impacted by Maggie. As if Maggie took the whole of delight on offer to everyone and used it all for her own gain. No room for the enjoyment of others. Her freedom would always come at the cost of someone else’s liberty. Fire steals away oxygen. And Maggie was an unapologetic torch.

June 10: Hawkes: Meet at the kitchens at 6pm. Be prepared for walking. I have warned the others.
Emma: Is there need for warning?
Hawkes: Every day should leave some part free for a Sabbath of the heart

May 14: Can’t stand the woman! She judges all in silence until in regular intervals, she clings out an opinion as though she were a bell. Most uncomfortable for of us who prefer to share our judgments freely without discretion. (Aunt Eugenia 😄)

May 2: I am not commanding you, rather I am establishing a benevolent dictatorship in which a command may be given

Part 4 Chapter 47: There comes a time in every girl‘s life when she’s had enough a playing by the rules that are rigged against her. When she realizes the consequences of breaking them are no worse than following them.

Epilogue 8: This book was started in Bangor, Maine September 9, 1981. And was completed in the same city December 28, 1985.

It is the same way with stories. One leads to the next and the next. Maybe they go in the direction you wanted it to go, maybe they don’t. Maybe in the end it is the voice that tells the stories. More than the stories themselves that matters.

Derry The Second Interlude: February 28, 1985
In the LOTR, way leads onto way, you could start on a path leading nowhere more fantastic than your own front steps to the sidewalk. From there, you could go anywhere! It is the same way with stories…

Chapter 25: “…the burning world set in the hands of laughing men, maniacs celebrated their own pranks while others charged over their last hill.”

Chapter 24: “…Particularly her long braided hair, which was going grey decades early. Likely due to facing a surgeon‘s stress at a prisoner’s wages.”

Chapter 10: “…under the impressive duo of daily terror and adolescence, Anders envied Slade’s ease”
lol, this kid (main character) is a total stereotype of a optimistic, clever, goofy youth. I know such beings in these modern times, so it is fun to “see” them acting like they most likely would during the American Civil War

Chapter 8: “Men!” bellowed the captain. “Yes!” said Anders before he could stop himself. He ducked another flick from Thomas. Surprisingly, Gleeson stood on the edge of career-killing laughter. Cheer leaked out in two coughs Anders guessed that the Corporal found Thomas’ lack of self-control amusing.

Monstrous Regiment is an action/adventure fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 31st novel in his Discworld series. ➡️It takes its name from a 16th-century tract by John Knox opposing female rule, titled The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women.⬅️

Chapter 11: thinkers who tolerate ambiguity make the best forecasts

Chapter 4: A hyper-correction affect: the more confident a learner is about their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learned the right answer.

Chapter 3: it is an old joke among jazz musicians, “Can you read music?” “Not enough to hurt my playing”

Chapter 3: a professor from the University of California-San Francisco designed an iron-free piano so he could put jazz musicians improvising on the piano in an MRI scanner. Brain areas designated for focused attention, inhibition, and self-censoring turned down when musicians were creating. It is like the brain turned off its own ability to criticize itself.

Chapter 3: he had learned to learn