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Avid reader and gardener. Gardening in USDA zones 5 and 9 and reading everywhere and inbetween.
#AlphabeticalDiaries
#SheilaHeti
Been thinking about authenticity, and about how we have been done a great disservice by being taught that what we are to be authentic to is our feelings, as opposed to our values.
#SheilaHeti
Been thinking about authenticity, and about how we have been done a great disservice by being taught that what we are to be authentic to is our feelings, as opposed to our values.
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#AlphabeticalDiaries
#SheilaHeti
Been thinking about authenticity, and about how we have been done a great disservice by being taught that what we are to be authentic to is our feelings, as opposed to our values.
#SheilaHeti
Been thinking about authenticity, and about how we have been done a great disservice by being taught that what we are to be authentic to is our feelings, as opposed to our values.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Finished #TheHousekeeperandtheProfessor
#YōkoOgawa
"Hasn't zero been around forever?"
"How long is forever…So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being…You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle."
#YōkoOgawa
"Hasn't zero been around forever?"
"How long is forever…So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being…You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle."
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Finished #TheHousekeeperandtheProfessor
#YōkoOgawa
"Hasn't zero been around forever?"
"How long is forever…So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being…You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle."
#YōkoOgawa
"Hasn't zero been around forever?"
"How long is forever…So you think that zero was there waiting for us when humans came into being…You should have more respect for human progress. We made the zero, through great pain and struggle."
Finished
#BeneaththeTreesWhereNobodySees
#PatrickHorvath
You see the natural order of things. Where we belong.
#BeneaththeTreesWhereNobodySees
#PatrickHorvath
You see the natural order of things. Where we belong.
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Finished
#BeneaththeTreesWhereNobodySees
#PatrickHorvath
You see the natural order of things. Where we belong.
#BeneaththeTreesWhereNobodySees
#PatrickHorvath
You see the natural order of things. Where we belong.
#Mice1961
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#Mice1961
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
#StaceyLevine
Living with them on that narrow yet warm ledge, trying to hang on to that life, I did not care if I was free to leave or not. I disliked the notion of independence and wanted to shut it away as the sky with its range of blues locks out the infinite every day.
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
She began to understand that this was Vietnam Week on campuses…a protest against Dow Chemical…whose products included a new and improved form of napalm with a polystyrene additive that made jellied matter cling more firmly to human flesh.
#DonDeLillo
She began to understand that this was Vietnam Week on campuses…a protest against Dow Chemical…whose products included a new and improved form of napalm with a polystyrene additive that made jellied matter cling more firmly to human flesh.
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
She began to understand that this was Vietnam Week on campuses…a protest against Dow Chemical…whose products included a new and improved form of napalm with a polystyrene additive that made jellied matter cling more firmly to human flesh.
#DonDeLillo
She began to understand that this was Vietnam Week on campuses…a protest against Dow Chemical…whose products included a new and improved form of napalm with a polystyrene additive that made jellied matter cling more firmly to human flesh.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
#TheLandinWinter
#AndrewMiller
She opened the door. "Is it starting to lift?" she asked.
"I think so," he said.
They stood side by side, looking out at the garden. It was the moment, a small lapse in the ritual of the visit, when something might have been said, but nothing was.
#AndrewMiller
She opened the door. "Is it starting to lift?" she asked.
"I think so," he said.
They stood side by side, looking out at the garden. It was the moment, a small lapse in the ritual of the visit, when something might have been said, but nothing was.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
#TheLandinWinter
#AndrewMiller
She opened the door. "Is it starting to lift?" she asked.
"I think so," he said.
They stood side by side, looking out at the garden. It was the moment, a small lapse in the ritual of the visit, when something might have been said, but nothing was.
#AndrewMiller
She opened the door. "Is it starting to lift?" she asked.
"I think so," he said.
They stood side by side, looking out at the garden. It was the moment, a small lapse in the ritual of the visit, when something might have been said, but nothing was.
Finished #Woodcutters
#ThomasBernhard
..meet someone…we take everything we need…then we leave them…spend years sucking all we can out of someone…having almost sucked them dry,we suddenly say that we ourselves are being sucked dry…the rest of our lives we…live with the knowledge of our own baseness…
#ThomasBernhard
..meet someone…we take everything we need…then we leave them…spend years sucking all we can out of someone…having almost sucked them dry,we suddenly say that we ourselves are being sucked dry…the rest of our lives we…live with the knowledge of our own baseness…
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Finished #Woodcutters
#ThomasBernhard
..meet someone…we take everything we need…then we leave them…spend years sucking all we can out of someone…having almost sucked them dry,we suddenly say that we ourselves are being sucked dry…the rest of our lives we…live with the knowledge of our own baseness…
#ThomasBernhard
..meet someone…we take everything we need…then we leave them…spend years sucking all we can out of someone…having almost sucked them dry,we suddenly say that we ourselves are being sucked dry…the rest of our lives we…live with the knowledge of our own baseness…
#TheHousekeeperandtheProfessor
#YōkoOgawa
On the paper he had written a single line, one simple formula:
e^(π i)+ 1 = 0
No one spoke. The widow's fingernails had ceased their tapping. Her eyes…now looked at me with a calm, understanding gaze, and I could tell then that she knew the beauty of math.
#YōkoOgawa
On the paper he had written a single line, one simple formula:
e^(π i)+ 1 = 0
No one spoke. The widow's fingernails had ceased their tapping. Her eyes…now looked at me with a calm, understanding gaze, and I could tell then that she knew the beauty of math.
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#TheHousekeeperandtheProfessor
#YōkoOgawa
On the paper he had written a single line, one simple formula:
e^(π i)+ 1 = 0
No one spoke. The widow's fingernails had ceased their tapping. Her eyes…now looked at me with a calm, understanding gaze, and I could tell then that she knew the beauty of math.
#YōkoOgawa
On the paper he had written a single line, one simple formula:
e^(π i)+ 1 = 0
No one spoke. The widow's fingernails had ceased their tapping. Her eyes…now looked at me with a calm, understanding gaze, and I could tell then that she knew the beauty of math.
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
The conflict with the earthly father and the one with the heavenly Father, the liberation promised in the Word and the liberation promised in the word, and the primacy of the text as it relates to the individual.
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
The conflict with the earthly father and the one with the heavenly Father, the liberation promised in the Word and the liberation promised in the word, and the primacy of the text as it relates to the individual.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
The conflict with the earthly father and the one with the heavenly Father, the liberation promised in the Word and the liberation promised in the word, and the primacy of the text as it relates to the individual.
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
The conflict with the earthly father and the one with the heavenly Father, the liberation promised in the Word and the liberation promised in the word, and the primacy of the text as it relates to the individual.
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Fissures run through the image, something bulges outward here, the schism goes right through the middle of the word, holes like moth-damage, white spots, themselves further script, whisper to me, I read them out with pecking eye….
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Fissures run through the image, something bulges outward here, the schism goes right through the middle of the word, holes like moth-damage, white spots, themselves further script, whisper to me, I read them out with pecking eye….
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Finished #Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Fissures run through the image, something bulges outward here, the schism goes right through the middle of the word, holes like moth-damage, white spots, themselves further script, whisper to me, I read them out with pecking eye….
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
Fissures run through the image, something bulges outward here, the schism goes right through the middle of the word, holes like moth-damage, white spots, themselves further script, whisper to me, I read them out with pecking eye….
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
#AlphabeticalDiaries
#SheilaHeti
A feeling that he will completely reject me, that I don't know what's going on, or that he's mad. A feeling that I could occupy myself with this feeling forever. A feminist feeling. A few minutes later he returned and untied me.
#SheilaHeti
A feeling that he will completely reject me, that I don't know what's going on, or that he's mad. A feeling that I could occupy myself with this feeling forever. A feminist feeling. A few minutes later he returned and untied me.
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
#AlphabeticalDiaries
#SheilaHeti
A feeling that he will completely reject me, that I don't know what's going on, or that he's mad. A feeling that I could occupy myself with this feeling forever. A feminist feeling. A few minutes later he returned and untied me.
#SheilaHeti
A feeling that he will completely reject me, that I don't know what's going on, or that he's mad. A feeling that I could occupy myself with this feeling forever. A feminist feeling. A few minutes later he returned and untied me.
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
There are no Ten Commandments. Dekalos means the “ten-word" or, perhaps, the "tenfold word"—das Zehnwort.
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
There are no Ten Commandments. Dekalos means the “ten-word" or, perhaps, the "tenfold word"—das Zehnwort.
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
There are no Ten Commandments. Dekalos means the “ten-word" or, perhaps, the "tenfold word"—das Zehnwort.
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
There are no Ten Commandments. Dekalos means the “ten-word" or, perhaps, the "tenfold word"—das Zehnwort.
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
And the two men…Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.
Om does not rhyme with bomb. It only
looks that way.
Death and magic, that's the mushroom. Or death and immortal life.
#DonDeLillo
And the two men…Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.
Om does not rhyme with bomb. It only
looks that way.
Death and magic, that's the mushroom. Or death and immortal life.
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
And the two men…Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.
Om does not rhyme with bomb. It only
looks that way.
Death and magic, that's the mushroom. Or death and immortal life.
#DonDeLillo
And the two men…Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.
Om does not rhyme with bomb. It only
looks that way.
Death and magic, that's the mushroom. Or death and immortal life.
Finished #TheAutumnofthePatriarch
#GabrielGarcíaMárquez
…he would accompany him to the steps with the first shadows of evening trying to explain to him that he could take anything he wanted except the sea of my windows….
#GabrielGarcíaMárquez
…he would accompany him to the steps with the first shadows of evening trying to explain to him that he could take anything he wanted except the sea of my windows….
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Finished #TheAutumnofthePatriarch
#GabrielGarcíaMárquez
…he would accompany him to the steps with the first shadows of evening trying to explain to him that he could take anything he wanted except the sea of my windows….
#GabrielGarcíaMárquez
…he would accompany him to the steps with the first shadows of evening trying to explain to him that he could take anything he wanted except the sea of my windows….
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
According to Augustine, the soul is the actual human being…Descartes says the soul can exist separate from the body, it is the I…Might it actually be that an earthly part of ourselves, the soul, is already part of the hereafter?
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
According to Augustine, the soul is the actual human being…Descartes says the soul can exist separate from the body, it is the I…Might it actually be that an earthly part of ourselves, the soul, is already part of the hereafter?
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
According to Augustine, the soul is the actual human being…Descartes says the soul can exist separate from the body, it is the I…Might it actually be that an earthly part of ourselves, the soul, is already part of the hereafter?
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
According to Augustine, the soul is the actual human being…Descartes says the soul can exist separate from the body, it is the I…Might it actually be that an earthly part of ourselves, the soul, is already part of the hereafter?
#Autocorrect
#EtgarKeret
It seemed that Not-Debbie was also named Deborah…She'd come from a parallel world. I'm not kidding that's what she said…She wasn't part of an alien invasion or the result of a scientific military experiment gone wrong. She was here as a contestant on a TV game show....
#EtgarKeret
It seemed that Not-Debbie was also named Deborah…She'd come from a parallel world. I'm not kidding that's what she said…She wasn't part of an alien invasion or the result of a scientific military experiment gone wrong. She was here as a contestant on a TV game show....
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#Autocorrect
#EtgarKeret
It seemed that Not-Debbie was also named Deborah…She'd come from a parallel world. I'm not kidding that's what she said…She wasn't part of an alien invasion or the result of a scientific military experiment gone wrong. She was here as a contestant on a TV game show....
#EtgarKeret
It seemed that Not-Debbie was also named Deborah…She'd come from a parallel world. I'm not kidding that's what she said…She wasn't part of an alien invasion or the result of a scientific military experiment gone wrong. She was here as a contestant on a TV game show....
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#TheHousekeeperandtheProfessor
#YōkoOgawa
"Yes…” he said, pointing at his chest. “It's in here. It's the most discreet sort of number,so it never comes out where it can be seen. But it's here." We fell silent for a moment,trying to picture the square root of minus one in some distant,unknown place.
#YōkoOgawa
"Yes…” he said, pointing at his chest. “It's in here. It's the most discreet sort of number,so it never comes out where it can be seen. But it's here." We fell silent for a moment,trying to picture the square root of minus one in some distant,unknown place.
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#TheHousekeeperandtheProfessor
#YōkoOgawa
"Yes…” he said, pointing at his chest. “It's in here. It's the most discreet sort of number,so it never comes out where it can be seen. But it's here." We fell silent for a moment,trying to picture the square root of minus one in some distant,unknown place.
#YōkoOgawa
"Yes…” he said, pointing at his chest. “It's in here. It's the most discreet sort of number,so it never comes out where it can be seen. But it's here." We fell silent for a moment,trying to picture the square root of minus one in some distant,unknown place.
Finished #TheNewsfromParaguay
#LilyTuck
Then, with her bare hands, Ella began to cover their bodies with earth. She was halfway finished when...looking up...Ella saw a flight of parrots go by overhead. The parrots were so numerous…that for a few seconds the parrots mercifully blocked out the sun.
#LilyTuck
Then, with her bare hands, Ella began to cover their bodies with earth. She was halfway finished when...looking up...Ella saw a flight of parrots go by overhead. The parrots were so numerous…that for a few seconds the parrots mercifully blocked out the sun.
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Finished #TheNewsfromParaguay
#LilyTuck
Then, with her bare hands, Ella began to cover their bodies with earth. She was halfway finished when...looking up...Ella saw a flight of parrots go by overhead. The parrots were so numerous…that for a few seconds the parrots mercifully blocked out the sun.
#LilyTuck
Then, with her bare hands, Ella began to cover their bodies with earth. She was halfway finished when...looking up...Ella saw a flight of parrots go by overhead. The parrots were so numerous…that for a few seconds the parrots mercifully blocked out the sun.
