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Good morning, wonderful people! May is such a good month for remembering this, when the warmth is back in the air and the days are long and generous, that the light we carry inside us doesn't actually depend on the season outside to exist. Mind you, this may also be wishful thinking, as it's been rather chilly here this week!

Have a Fantastic Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

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Good morning, friends! There's a lot of truth packed into this one. It's worth sitting with it for a moment, because the reading we do out of genuine love and curiosity (rather than obligation) has a way of quietly shaping us into who we actually are.

Have a Terrific Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

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"Don't play like you haven't heard this one before. When you create the conditions of war, you get to name the places it happened."

- Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball And Ascension

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Good morning, everyone! I don't think you need to be particularly fanciful to understand exactly what Borges meant by this, because anyone who's ever lost an entire afternoon to a good book and a comfortable chair knows there's really nothing quite like it. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

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The bones of native peoples

Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes and called them “artefacts,” then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.

From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

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Good morning, all! The year is in full swing, and May is doing its very best out there; a bit of magic and good madness seems entirely reasonable to me. Have a Fabulous Friday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

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Good morning, everyone! It's something I genuinely believe, that the books we read leave their mark on us in ways we don't always notice straight away, and that a really good story has a way of quietly shifting how you see things long after you've closed the cover. Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

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Good morning, lovely people! The paths worth taking aren't always the ones we planned, and with May properly settled in and the world looking its very best right now, it feels like a fine morning to step outside and see where the day leads. Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙

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'Dad had said ‘no’ to the system and broken what was unthinkable to break: the habit of accepting lies and lying, even to yourself, for the sake of survival. The effects of movchanka, the Great Hush, were so much deeper than I imagined. There hadn’t only been The Unsayable, there had also been The Unthinkable.' -- from 'Strong Roots' by Olia Hercules

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'Poetry may seem an improbable portal into the fundamental nature of reality—into dark matter and the singularity, evolution and entropy, Hubble’s law and pi—but it has a lovely way of sneaking ideas into our consciousness through the back door of feeling, bypassing our ordinary ways of seeing and relating to the world, our biases and preconceptions, and swinging open another gateway of receptivity.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova

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We all have our helpers in seen and unseen realms

We all have helpers in seen and unseen realms.
Give them something to do.
Otherwise, they will grow inattentive with boredom.
They can clean junk from your mind,
Find the opening note for the chorus of a song,
Or give a grandchild a safe path through the dark.
They will not give you winning numbers at the casino,
Wash your dishes, or take out an enemy.
Thank them.
Feed them once in a while.

From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

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"At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." - James, by Percival Everett

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“For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.”

~ Henry Beston from his book The Outermost House

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"Sport is agony. We agree to suffer endlessly in exchange for the mere possibility of sublime rapture. Sometimes, we even get it."

-- Why We Love Baseball: A History In 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
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"But the Earth is an unstable stone on which its occupants are planted. It must be tended with care, or else it will rebel. Our rock tells us when it’s hurt or yearning, and we must listen. Otherwise, one morning we may find it no longer wants to revolve." -- from 'The Archive of Alternate Endings' by Lindsey Drager

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"Of course, they didn’t get that staring at flowers is a form of being busy. That watching the flow of the clouds is an important activity. That in a period of depression and fear, to think about beautiful things, your dreams and wishes, and to smile is highly, highly important, a vital task." -- from 'The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen' by Shokoofeh Azar (the translator is anonymous for security reasons)

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“How could we let them get away with it for so long?” But the question, of course, contained its own answer: We let them get away with it. Power is more often surrendered than seized." -- from 'Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir' by John Banville

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"It is a May morning of luminous loveliness. The sunlight glows through a delicate muslin mist, the soft air is fragrant with the smell of lilac, and out over the tawny reaches of Sandymount strand, where Stephen Dedalus once trod upon seaspawn and seawrack while seeking myopically to make out the signatures of all the things he was sent there to read, the pale sky shines and shimmers like the inner skin of a vast soap bubble." -- from 'Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir' by John Banville

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Kleinkariert steht niemandem gut. ✋ Dieses Zitat aus »Lost Bastards« sitzt einfach. Es erinnert uns daran, dass Souveränität dort beginnt, wo das Ego aufhört. Habt ihr das Buch schon gelesen? #buchsky #booksky #books #BookQuote #zitat

“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*

"Then she opens the book like she’s raising the lid of a treasure chest. Each illuminated psalm is vibrant as a sunrise. She pictures the monk who copied the verse and decorated the margins, but instead of ink, she imagines him dipping his quill in the colors of bluebirds and holly berries and bright spring moss." ~~ from 'Canticle' by Janet Rich Edwards

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Once again I must repeat it—our world is populated by the sleeping, who have died and are dreaming that they are alive. That is why there are more and more people in the world, for it is populated by the sleeping dead who keep growing in number, while the real people living for the first time are few. In all this confusion none of us knows or can possibly know if he is someone who is only dreaming life or really living it. -- from 'House of Day, House of Night' by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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"He looked at no one. His face was a mask.

They walked on."

- The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)

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A Persian inscription on a sixteenth-century platter reads: “That this platter always be full, always surrounded by friends, that they are lacking for nothing and that they enjoy everything well.” -- from 'Adventures in the Louvre' by Elaine Sciolino

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“It might be a painting where you study the artist’s pencil lines and paint, and the characters and their expressions. Paintings are like a book.” Consciously or not, he echoed one of the most famous sayings about the Louvre, by Cézanne, who once referred to the museum as “the book from which we learn to read.” -- from 'Adventures in the Louvre' by Elaine Sciolino

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Did you ever notice how books track you down and hunt you out? They follow you like the hound in Francis Thompson's poem. They know their quarry!... Words can't describe the cunning of some books. You'll think you've shaken them off your trail, and then one day some innocent-looking customer will pop in and begin to talk, and you'll know he's an unconscious agent of book-destiny.
~~ from 'The Haunted Bookshop' by Christopher Morley

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"You see and remember; this text is a memorial, a wailing wall, for the dead and the mourners have no other place to meet except by the wall of words—the wall that unites the living and the dead." ~~ from 'Oblivion' by Sergei Lebedev, trans. Antonina W. Bouis

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I might add War as well.

Great book by the way.

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