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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

The Wisdom of No Escape: Pema Chödrön on Gentleness, the Art of Letting Go, and How to Befriend Your Inner Life “Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.”

The Wisdom of No Escape – a Buddhist perspective on the art of letting go and how to befriend your inner life www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/p...

Sunday vibes.

I'm reading this book for my long-running book club focusing on sci-fi and fantasy. We read both old books and new and after years of doing it, we're on the verge of quitting new books. Old books are often not as well-written (this one is, though), but new books disappoint us by being boring af.

Thank you for introducing me to this gem of a book!

Majorca/Morocco for me.

Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation “Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."

An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh “It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and compl…

Time for Hannah Arendt's enduring case for the power of defiant goodwill and the art of beginning afresh

Sage words and perspective on character.

Medium weight silk wool scarf, black of course. Max versatility for instant warmth or to wipe a sweaty brow, with fashionable nuance.

Hello Blue Skies, good morning.