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@ktsmith.bsky.social
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Social worker and film buff trying to pursue a life of faith and loving others (Gal. 5:6). My husband, live music, the outdoors, cooking, the PNW, travel, literature, and films make me happy.
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He’s as anti-American as one person can be. God help us.
“The New Colossus” - “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free” - alongside a picture of the Statue of Liberty.
February 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I’ll take it!
The word “providential.”
January 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5
A small candle flame flickers in the darkness.
December 25, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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I really enjoyed Rich Villodas’ The Narrow Path on audio.
Cover for The Narrow Path, written by Rich Villodas.
December 13, 2024 at 6:46 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.

Day 20

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Cover for the book, “The Heart of Trauma,” written by Bonnie Badenoch. A grove of trees is featured, their roots visible and intertwined. The title is featured above them, along with the subtitle: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships.
December 9, 2024 at 4:20 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.

Day 19

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#BookChallenge
Cover of the book, “Night,” written by Ellie Wiesel. Barnes wire runs horizontally across the middle of the cover, with the author’s name above it and the title in the upper right-hand corner.
December 8, 2024 at 6:06 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.

Day 18

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#BookChallenge
Cover of “Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church,” written by Philip Yancey. The title and author’s name are superimposed in white font over a picture of the open ocean, with a lone sailboat moving across the water.
December 7, 2024 at 7:15 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.

Day 17

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#BookChallenge
Cover for the book, Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores, written by Diane Langberg. The title is written across the cover in green against a dark background.
December 6, 2024 at 12:47 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.

Day 16

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#BookChallenge
Cover for “The Four Loves,” written by CS Lewis. The four types of love discussed in the book - affection, friendship, eros, and charity - are written like a fan spreading across the top of the cover, held up by a pair of hands. The title is written in script font underneath, with the author’s name at the bottom of the page.
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 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.

Day 15

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#BookChallenge
Cover for “Chasing Vines,” written by Beth Moore. The author walks through a vineyard towards the reader.
December 5, 2024 at 2:19 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.

Day 14

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#BookChallenge
Cover of the book, Isaac’s Storm, written by Erik Larson. The cover is divided in half horizontally with a stormy sea featured in color across the bottom half, and a black and white picture of Isaac Cline, the subject of the book, filling the top half. The title is in the middle of the cover in red lettering on a black background.
December 3, 2024 at 12:56 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.

Day 13

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#BookChallenge
The cover of “Les Miserables,” written by Victor Hugo. A solitary, small girl sweeps a wet floor with a large stick broom that emphasizes her young age by contrast with her size.
December 2, 2024 at 12:19 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.

Day 12

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Book cover for The Brothers K, written by David James Duncan. The title, dominated by the letter K, hovers over a sparse landscape of a few trees and a white farmhouse-style home.
December 1, 2024 at 8:17 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.

Day 11

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Cover of “A Room of One’s Own,” written by Virginia Woolf. A woman wearing a full-length dress, sits in a chair with her back to the reader, looking out a curtained window framed by small louvered shutters. A plant pot sits on one sill. The room is sparse but there is light coming through the window.
November 30, 2024 at 7:27 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.

Day 10

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#BookChallenge
Book cover for Strength to Love, written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the cover, Dr. King sits, almost in profile, with his hands clasped in front of him. A light shines across him as if he is looking out a window.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 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.

Day 9

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#BookChallenge
The cover for Fleming Rutledge’s book, “The Battle for Middle Earth: Tolkien’s Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings.” An eagle carries Frodo and Sam away from Mt Doom. The scene is dark and ominous but sunlight is breaking through the clouds.
November 27, 2024 at 12:37 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.

Day 8

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#BookChallenge
Book covers for The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkein: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Each cover features either black or red font against an ivory background. The eye of Sauron occupies the middle of the cover, ringed in elvish, with the one ring hovering above it.
November 26, 2024 at 11:30 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.

Day 7

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#BookChallenge
Cover for the novel, Silence, written by Shusaku Endo. Two crosses stand in silhouette against a backdrop of Mt Fuji and a Japanese flag, with a flock of herons flying in front of the red sun.
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 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.

Day 6

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#BookChallenge
The book cover for Francis Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow. Looking from a marshy area out across the sea at sunset.
November 25, 2024 at 12:26 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.

Day 5

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Book cover of The Poisonwood Bible, written by Barbara Kingsolver.
November 23, 2024 at 1:49 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.

Day 4

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Book cover the novel, Birdsong, written by by Sebastian Faulk. Six soldiers in silhouette run across a battle-torn landscape.
November 22, 2024 at 12:40 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.

Day 3

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Book cover for Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor. A grove of leafless trees stands under a moonlit night. An owl sits on one of the branches.
November 21, 2024 at 12:38 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.

Day 2

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Book cover for Crime and Punishment, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
November 20, 2024 at 1:26 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.

Day 1

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#BookChallenge
Book cover of Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, featuring a headshot of the monster.
November 19, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Embarrassed to admit I’m watching The Godfather for the first time. I like this non-bombastic Al Pacino.
Al Pacino in The Godfather
November 18, 2024 at 4:41 AM