“I understood that my grief, which I still carried like comfort, was not for my grandfather. The red branch on the green trues not only the
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Today’s Walk: Birds of Sunset Cliffs
“Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where
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Sunday Sentence: Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein
“And so today I dare you to do the thing you don’t think you’re ready to do.” Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein I love reading them, so
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Today’s Walk: Morning Dilemma
“…I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan
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Sunday Sentence: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“It brought to him a disorienting strangeness, because his mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space
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A Reader Reminds Me Why I’m Doing This
“May I just say thank you for caring about a really big issue. My son has his own story to tell about his re-entry and his
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Sunday Sentence: The Literary Dog
“The deaths of others carry us off bit by bit, until there will be nothing left; and this, too, will be, in a way, a mercy.”
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Sunday Sentence: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
“He was the sort of fellow that kids laughed at and dogs wanted to bite.”-Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter There are other, more
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Coming home for me, books for you
As you read this, I will be back in the springtime embrace of my old homes. All of them. I’m bringing Casualties to the places and
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Sunday Sentence: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
“The hawk sat on a limb three feet above my head and did not stir as I walked under – that was the first sign.” –
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