“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”
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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”
One Drop in the Ocean
“Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?” ~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas “… for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully aContinue reading “One Drop in the Ocean”
Sage Woman Chronicles 