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My friend T over at Wing and a Prayer Farm hosted us for a round of lamb cuddling, and the Dogtor took some great video footage of the impossibly cute, 2 day old Shetland lambs. (Focus on the lambs and not my weird runner-farmer outfit).
Warning: the wholesomeness of this video may be too much for you. Do not watch if you have a dark soul. Or do watch and be temporarily cured.
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Warning: the wholesomeness of this video may be too much for you. Do not watch if you have a dark soul. Or do watch and be temporarily cured.
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Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
— published 2012 — 5 editions |
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The Best American Series: 20 Short Stories and Essays
— published 2012 |
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The Best American Short Stories 2011
by Geraldine Brooks , Caitlin Horrocks , Bret Anthony Johnston — published 2011 — 4 editions |
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Pen America: A Journal for Writers and Readers: 13 Lovers
by Don DeLillo , Pen American Center, Jonathan Lethem — published 2009 — 4 editions |
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I don't know what to say about this book that won't end up sounding overly personal, other than I loved it and thought it was a great collection of stories, really well done. I know lots of people like writing super-subjective reviews, but I'm not...
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Absolutely amazing. I'm in a kind of short story frenzy at the moment and truly loved every story in this book. Mayhew Bergman's writing takes my breath away, it's that beautiful.
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I'm so glad my partner came across this gem on one of our weekends away, in a little bookstore in Mystic, CT. I believe any reader could find something to connect with in these stories, but I felt a particular bond to the overall importance of pla...
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
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“Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
“I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
“Sometimes you didn't know what you were after, I thought. Maybe there was a speck on the horizon and you followed it, hoping for the best.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
― Megan Mayhew Bergman, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
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“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
― Kurt Vonnegut
“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.”
― Jean Rhys
― Jean Rhys
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
