“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.” ~ Dalai Lama This spring is the fifth anniversary of beginning this blog. During the winter, I felt like my postsContinue reading “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
Category Archives: Books
Ben-Hur
“You can break a man’s skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into the dungeon. but how do you control what’s up here? (taps his head) How do you fight an idea?” ~ Sextus in Ben-Hur It’s nearly Passover and Easter. When I was growing up, every year at this time the networksContinue reading “Ben-Hur”
Stephen King’s The Stand
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, butContinue reading “Stephen King’s The Stand”
To Kill a Mockingbird
“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ~ Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird IContinue reading “To Kill a Mockingbird”
More Cloud Atlas
“If God did create the world, how do we know which things we can change and which things must remain sacred and inviolate?” ~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 1850 timeline “We cross and recross our tracks like figure skaters …” ~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 2012 timeline “Our lives are not our own. From wombContinue reading “More Cloud Atlas”
Sage Woman Chronicles 