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I missed Caturday. So here is Clara on SundayCatFunday.
April 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Happy International Women's Day!
(I wish it was happier...But, keep going.)
March 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

20/20

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Book cover, The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery
February 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

19/20

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Book cover of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
February 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

18/20

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Book jacket: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

17/20

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Book jacket: Seamus Heaney Selected Poems 1966-1987
February 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I absolutely love this idea.
February 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Reading this now. It's a nice escape and very well written.

Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo

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www.theguardian.com/books/2023/a...
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo review – a wryly comic coming-of-age
This novel about a young woman growing up in a dysfunctional family in Rome is a gleeful dance between truth and fiction
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

16/20

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Book jacket The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
February 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
February 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

15/20

#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
Autobiography of a Face book cover. Author Lucy Grealy.
February 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I got a day behind...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

14/20

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Book cover of The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
February 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis.

And this is what the White House is focused on.
February 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

13/20

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Book cover for Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
February 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

12/20
Book cover of The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
February 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Clara. Always watching...

#Caturday
#Cats
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Siamese cat kitten looking over dining room table from nose up.
February 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

11/20

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Book cover of Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie.
February 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

10/20

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Book cover for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn a novel by Betty Smith
February 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Donald Trump is not king — it’s time for House Republicans to step up and join us in doing something about it.
February 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to eliminate the Department of Education and go after Medicaid. What’s next, Social Security?

Join us Saturday as we rally to #StopElonMusk
February 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

9/20

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Book cover of The Color of Water by James McBride
February 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Chaos isn't a consequence of Donald Trump's actions.

Chaos is the goal.
February 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM