The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. (Mike Murdock)
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It's easy; it's free; it's fun; and it's effective.
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. (Mike Murdock)
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. (Jack Lemmon)
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Mila didn't smile. Carter was heading back to the office, no doubt to upload the pictures he'd taken of Professor Perry and the girl. What he'd just done, at Cecil's bidding, felt wrong on every level to Mila. It was cheap and voyeuristic and heavy-handed. A picture was no more or less than a moment in time. it never told the whole story. it did not allow for nuance.
For our tenth book of the year I recommend The Lost Notebook by Louise Douglas. We find ourselves once again in the role of amateur sleuth as . Here is the worksheet.
Mothering seemed like downhill skiing, or cooking elaborate meals from scratch - sure, anyone could learn how to do it, but it was much easier for the people who had seen other people do it first, and well, and from a very young age.
My recommendation for our ninth book of the year is Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow. We follow Alice as she moves through time in an attempt to save her dying father. This is not, however, your typical time travel novel where a protagonist has the capacity to change the future, but rather a reflection on the significance of the tiny minor details of life which make up and modify the whole. Here is the worksheet.
Funny, it used to be so simple to sum his mother up, but now that he looked back he seemed to be ambushed by complexities. He saw again the frightened look in her eyes when she was going through her last illness, and her tiny, curled hands. It struck him that life in general was heartbreaking - a word he didn't toss off lightly.
Somewhere in the boy's mind was a mortal fear that culminated in planning each day at great length, and not leaving things to chance, because losing one parent was a tragedy, losing two would be careless.
Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. (Sam Keen)
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Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practise swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends. (Darell Hammond)
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought . (Wallace Stevens).
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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