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“For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.”
- Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/embodiment
- two previous versions completed in Dec. 2013 embedded in the comment fields below
...agreeing ;) - but there's a lot of this spirit in my thinking:
“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.”
― Peggy Toney Horton www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/september
Heading home. Book club tonight was great. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is, let's be honest, a weird book. Some people loved it, some people didn't like it, but we could all see each other's point of view, so the discussion was lively and engaging.
I personally loved the book because of how intensely, deliciously sad it was.
Hosted by Goodreads Indonesia at Pasar Festival, Kuningan. Great event, me, Nulisbuku.com and other writers + book lovers are having a great time!
“The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.”
- Hannah Arendt -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12806.Hannah_Arendt
Use or illustrate the Golden Spiral in a photograph today. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=352
...is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
For a missed connection in Washington, DC: “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” ― Charles Dickens
For a missed connection in Washington, DC: “Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”
...the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
- Criss Jami -
...a drama of contradictions.”
- Franz Kafka -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5223.Franz_Kafka
- A moment captured through a bus window on a highway bridge...
Colour my week: Gray Grey www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=517
Medium sized Viking holding a large coffee*.
*https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29415186-beautiful-wreck?ac=1&from_search=true
Ruby made "Yet Another World" which features prominently in "Chronic City", a book you MUST READ coz it references SL !!! www.goodreads.com/book/show/6085191-chronic-city
2015ean zehar GoodReads.era gehitutako liburuen eta irakurketen laburpena. GoodReads aplikazioak automatikoki ateratzen duen infografia xinple baina adierazgarria.
From Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12913325-between-shades-of-gray
It's 1941 and fifteen-year-old artist Lina Vilkas is on Stalin's extermination list. Deported to a prison camp in Siberia, Lina fights for her life, fearless, risking everything to save her family. It's a long and harrowing journey and it is only their incredible strength, love, and hope that pull Lina and her family through each day. But will love be enough to keep them alive?
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My Review:
I had to sit and think about what I wanted to write for a day before I actually tried to write this review. I am familiar with most of what happened during the era this book was set in, but I will have to admit that I knew absolutley nothing of what Russia did to those from Lithuania and the other Baltic States. It was absolutley horrifying how these people were treated. I will never be able to understand how another human being can treat another human being like they are nothing more than a common insect. I can't even fathom the scope of atrocities these people suffered at the hands of those who wanted to extinguish them from existance.
The book was quite captivating and held my intrest. The only thing I did not like was the ending. I really wanted to know more on how she got out of the camp and how she got back in touch with Andrius. I felt it lacked complete closure.
For a missed connection in Brooklyn, NY:
“you can take this mouth
this wound you want
but you can't kiss
and make it
better.”
See the child lift his arms up to the beauty of the sky. Glad I caught that on film. Refreshing view!
Goodreads quote:
"Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii's big island.
You own everything, my dear sovereign - the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as the internet and the wild horses and the roads. Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes with such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you."
— Rob Brezsny
Dailyshoot Challenge: Make a photograph today that features the sky.
...not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.”
― Ray A. Davis www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/dreams-inspirational
A page from The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (2021). Reviewed here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4039400602
...my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, but only until night
meets and then is overwhelmed by
morning, the light deepening, the
wind easing and just waiting, as I
too wait (and when have I ever been
disappointed?) for redbird to sing”
- Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings -
For a missed connection in Brooklyn, NY: “The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”