“writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. we are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. it's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. you can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
- anne lamott


Sunday, February 28, 2021


Books Similar to the Thief

https://honestavocado.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/books-similar-to-the-queens-thief-series-by-megan-whalen-turner/


Magical Realism books:


https://www.facebook.com/rachehuntsteenblik/posts/10105278574431499

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Romance books for Hillary

https://bookriot.com/2017/12/12/feminist-romance-novels-from-romancenovelsforhillary/

Saturday, February 9, 2019

25 Books by Indigenous Authors

https://kaitlincurtice.com/2018/09/06/25-books-by-indigenous-authors-you-should-be-reading/

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Model Mormon

"Belonging is being somehwere you want to be, and they want you. Fitting in is being somewhere where you want to be, but they don't care one way or another." -Brene Brown

When Mary wept at the feet of the Savior, mourning Lazaru's death, how did Christ react? Did he say, 'stop being drmatic. I would fix it if you would just calm down and listen to me"?
Jon 11:35: Jesus wept.

Surely if God wants me to be a model, he wants me to be famous.

"One of the most shocking findings of my work was the idea tat the most compassionate people I have interviewed over the last thirteen years were also the absolutely most boundaried... Boundary is simply what's okay and what's not okay. What i think we do is we don't set boundaries. We let people do things that are not okay or get away with bheaivors that are not okay, and then we're just resentful and hateful. Me? I'd rather be loving an dgenerous and very straight forward with what's ok and what's not okay." - Brene Brown

Samuel M Brown, First Principles and Ordinances. "we tend to like things to be the same for every person." --analogy of high and low blood pressure to grace v work. Different interventions for different situations.

I considered myself faithful when I ended relationships when I discovered that they were actually complex humans with stories more complicated than what I thought were supposed to fill the pages of good, faithful priesthood holders' tales.

"the strain of believing in unbelieving times...is a stimulus and a prod. It is precisely out of such strains that creative work issues forth" - Richard Bushman

Richard Rohr: Falling UPfward
Beverly Campbell: Eve and the Choice Made in Eden

Thursday, September 6, 2018

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.

– Wendell Berry

Monday, March 19, 2018

Books that defy category

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/23/573053135/just-trust-me-in-praise-of-strange-books?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=referral

(includes Hope Jahren's book!)