“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”
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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”
Movie/Book Connections
“Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.” ~ Daniel Kahneman In my last blog post I wrote about feeling restless. That feeling hasn’t gone away completely, but I think I may have hit on a new direction I want to take with these posts. The idea came toContinue reading “Movie/Book Connections”
Ready for a Change
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anaïs Nin “To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-it is a boat longing for the seaContinue reading “Ready for a Change”
Sage Woman Chronicles 