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April 5, 2025 – There was simply no other way to make our voices heard. “I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people
April 4, 2025 – Easy read. Enjoyable. Mysteries, some ghosties, friendship, a little messing about with time. I often get annoyed when books alternate between time
April 4, 2025 – This Is Just To Say I have issued the tariffs that were not meant for this and which we will definitely regret for ever I don’t get economics or
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April 4, 2025 – “Rules are not valid because the Senate passed them, or because heroes once played by them, or because God pronounced them through Moses or
April 3, 2025 – What I read about last month: Mysteries in the woods! Stories! Kind-of-not-really pirates! Ireland! Friendship! And saying no! In the Woods by Tana
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March 31, 2025 – What a great series. Will read again. There were rules, usually dependable, but rules were not principles, and so could not be trusted.
March 31, 2025 – Start here: GARDEN/notes/Four (helpful) beliefs I try to live by. Choose to believe in free will. Practice absolute acceptance. Take
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March 29, 2025 – Let’s make a list. I’ll start. I’m eating a really good sandwich. Soft roll, rotisserie chicken, crisp lettuce, a little mayo, gruyere cheese,
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March 27, 2025 – You ever get 317 pages into a 653 page book before realizing you have, in fact, read this book before? Cuz I did. Bits of it felt familiar before
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March 20, 2025 – I know how to push myself and I know how to indulge myself. I know how to punish myself and I know how to numb myself. But I don’t know how to take
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March 18, 2025 – “But the guilt of outliving those you love is justly to be borne, she thought. Outliving is something we do to them. The fantasies of dying could be
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March 14, 2025 – Ships! Storms at sea! Sailors! Hunting from boats! Not pirates but kind of like them! A larger-than-life villain whom Jack London not-so-secretly
March 14, 2025 – What we build now, today, in the small ways we know how, with the small things we are able to do, is what will remain when the empire falls. What do
March 14, 2025 – For corporations, it’s money. Profits. Remove your dollars from the profit margin. For would-be dictators and tyrants, it’s authority. They’ll take
March 13, 2025 – To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest
March 13, 2025 – I have a small circle of friends. I’m choosy. Within this small circle, two friends deal with chronic illness. Another with multiple serious
March 12, 2025 – That’s it, that’s the whole note
March 12, 2025 – [!quote] However, when I think about the best advice I’ve received over the years and I found one common pattern. Good advice improves your
March 10, 2025 – Lovely and cozy while dealing with grief. Some difficult themes which are touched with a light hand. Magic, friendship, light romance, Ireland. The
March 10, 2025 – She turned away and listened as Clara talked about what had happened. To Peter. It was a story Myrna knew well. She’d been there. But still she
March 10, 2025 – Easy read, YA, teen girl main character. Set-up for our protag’s experience is annoying only because I myself am not a teenager. The survival parts
March 10, 2025 – Meh. Read this in one day. It was easy to read and I ended up skimming a lot of boring parts (all the flashbacks to the main character’s
March 10, 2025 – It’s okay to be optimistic, but I can’t let myself feel the stab of every disappointment—or I’ll leak from all the holes in my heart. Pretty
March 10, 2025 – Branch, Tara - Radical Compassion | 2025-02 Reading notes McFadden, Freida - The Crash | 2025-02 Reading notes Muir, Tamsyn - Gideon the Ninth |
March 10, 2025 – Well, hm. So I love how Auel describes the landscape, the scenery, the seasons, the slow but inevitable huge shifts happening in nature. And I enjoy


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