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William Overbeeke
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Too busy to see some tulips, so opted for some dandelions instead 🌷➡️🌼
Dandelions grow on a sloping green hillside with a burst of trees and clouds in the background.
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light-dappled clouds in sweeping formations in a blue sky above a snow-covered landscape with trails curving in many different directions. Trees and ponds can be seen at the perimeter. Taken at Millennium Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
January 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My Top 12 Favorites Books of 2024: 1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham 2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides 3. James by Percival Everett 4. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart 5. The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta 6. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton 7. Playground by Richard Powers 8. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (sometimes subtitled A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church) by Megan Phelps-Roper 9. The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman 10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 11. Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hose 12. The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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1. Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
1. "To men and women across the United States, the almost ideal diversity of the Challenger crew-'one of everything'-may have been enough to make the tragedy seem personal. . . . More than anything else, the poignant public death of the world's first Everyman astronaut [Christa McAuliffe] made the loss of Challenger a shared tragedy: an instant-replay televised martyrdom in which everyone watching played a part." —ADAM HIGGINBOTHAM, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster at the Edge of Space
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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2. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
2. "He wanted to go not only 'farther than any man has been before me,' he wrote, 'but as far as I think it possible for man to go." —HAMPTON SIDES, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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3. James by Percival Everett
3. "At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn't even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive." —PERCIVAL EVERETT, James
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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4. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
4. "Mungo's capacity for love frustrated her. His loving wasn't selflessness; he simply could not help it. Mo-Maw needed so little and he produced so much. So that it all seemed a horrible waste. It was a harvest no one seeded, and it blossomed from a vine no one tended." —DOUGLAS STUART, Young Mungo
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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5. The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
5. "True power is not reflected in kingdoms, administrations, or campaigns, because these things are counterfeits of God's original, supreme authority.... Every biblical reference to power-every prayer, every reflection, every instruction- affirms that God is all-powerful, and that to the extent He vests that power in man, it is to proclaim God's kingdom, God's power, and God's glory." —TIM ALBERTA, The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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6. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
6. " . . . the real choices that you make in your life, the really difficult, defining choices, are never between what's right and what's easy. They're between what's wrong and what's hard." —ELEANOR CATTON, Birnam Wood
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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7. Playground by Richard Powers
7. "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean." —RICHARD POWERS, Playground
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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8. Unfollow by Megan Phelps–Roper
8. "Doubt was nothing more than an episte- mological humility: a deep and practical awareness that outside our sphere of knowledge there existed information and experiences that might show our position to be in error." —MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (a.k.a. A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church)
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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9. The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
9. "No stories were viral. No celebrity was trending. The world was still big. The country was still vast. You could just be a little person, with your own little life and your own little thoughts. You didn't have to have an opinion, and nobody cared if you did or did not. You could be alone on purpose, even in a crowd." —CHUCK KLOSTERMAN, The Nineties: A Book
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
10. "Chona had never been one to play by the rules of American society. She did not experience the world as most people did. To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don't touch that. Rather, she saw it as a place where every act of living was a chance for tikkun olam, to improve the world." —JAMES MCBRIDE, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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11. Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein
11. "Even without a mouth, the woman can scream, she said. Even without a stomach, one can go hungry. And even in death, one can lust for life." —KEVIN JARED HOSEIN, Hungry Ghosts
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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12. The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
12. "It isn't really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn't want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society-more important, even, than honest or decent-is identifiable." —CALEB CARR, The Angel of Darkness
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Honorable Mentions - Nonfiction
HONORABLE MENTIONS - NONFICTION "Thus, to use language well is about more than adding decorative twiddles; it is about moving other people to emotion and recognition. It is a moral activity, because being able to communicate well is at the heart of humanitas-of being human in the fullest way." —SARAH BAKEWELL, Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope "This is who we are as a species: We contain within ourselves both the possibility of murdering an old stranger for almost no reason-the capacity in Shakespeare's Iago which Coleridge called 'motiveless Malignity'-and we also contain the antidote to that disease-courage, selflessness, the willingness to risk oneself to help that old stranger lying on the ground." —SALMAN RUSHDIE, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder "The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been here before, are here now, will be here again." —ALEXANDRA FULLER, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Honorable Mentions - Fiction
HONORABLE MENTIONS - FICTION "She believed, of course because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable." —ROSAMUNDE PILCHER, The Shell Seekers "'She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say. And, as the train rolled past Macmire Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years already when these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more." —COLM TÓIBÍN, Brooklyn "Under National Socialism you looked in the mirror and saw your soul. You found yourself out.... We all discovered, or helplessly revealed, who we were. Who somebody really was. That was the Zone of interest." —MARTIN AMIS, The Zone of Interest
December 27, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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Merry Christmas! ❄️
December 25, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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🪜 12: Taos Pueblo, NM
North house of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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⌛ 11: White Sands National Park, NM
Blue sky and clouds over a sand dune at White Sands National Park, New Mexico
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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⛰️ 10: Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
Apache plumes in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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🏵️ 9: Flowers at a rest stop, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Orange cosmos, taken at a rest stop in Las Cruces, New Mexico
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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🌵 8: Saguaro cacti, Sabino Canyon, Tucson, AZ
Saguaro cacti in Sabino Canyon, Tucson, Arizona
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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🌳 7: Mesquite tree and cacti, Catalina State Park, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Mesquite tree and cacti in Catalina State Park, Tucson, Arizona
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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🏫 6: Inner harbor, Vollenhove, NL
Boats, trees, and buildings reflect in the inner harbor of Vollenhove, Overijssel, the Netherlands
December 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM