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Goodbye to All That
How many miles to Babylon?/ Three score miles and ten-/ Can I get there by candlelight?/ Yes, and back again- If your feet are nimble and light/ You can get there by candlelight.English Nursery Rhyme In her essay "Goodbye to All That," Joan Didion...
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"It is a dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty in simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fa...
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"That memories are recovered -- that is, that the suppressed truths do reemerge-- is the basis of whatever hope one can have for justice and a modicum of sanity in the ongoing life of communities." Susan Sontag At the beginning of Susan Sontag's e...
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"if your Nerve, deny you-go above your Nerve."Emily Dickinson I am continuing to read tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed. In her letter, Elissa Bassist - a 28 year old writer who battles the demons of...
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Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.