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Brenda wrote: "Jo wrote: "Thank you Kaliki!

Aaawww Brenda! Thank you! (I'm blushing!) I have plans for the writing... ;~) That's all I'm going to say for now!

Thank you Rosemary! "

okay, keep us posted. ..."

Lol, I will! (And thanks for the offer!) ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Jo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/234216-julia-s-chocolates-spoilers-possible Jo made a comment in the Chicks On Lit group:

Diane, I'm so glad you (and your daughter?) are alright and you've been able to get through something so awful. Verbal abuse is just as harmful as any physical kind and I agree that laughter is incredible medicine! ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Jo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/223154-eat-pray-love-spoilers-possible Jo made a comment in the Chicks On Lit group:

Okay, better late than never, my fave quotes from beads 28-36:

"What do I believe that I deserve in this life? Where can I accept sacrifice, and where can I not?"

""Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this is grace."

"But on the other side of that sword, if you're crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, "all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course.""
~This is true even if you haven't had a choice in certain aspects of your life (like having a disease as I do) and not following convention as a result.

"Admittedly, I am not one who looks fantastic in everything, but I still cannot help loving myself."
~I'm not quite there yet! LOL!

"The whole town in peeling and fading like those suites of rooms that one-rich families will barricade away in the backs of their mansions when it gets too expensive to keep the maintenance up and it's easier to just nail the doors shut and forget about the dying treasures on the other side-this is Venice. ...Venice is spooky under its grainy November skies. The city creaks and sways like a fishing pier."
~Wow, such great writing there!

"What was the word in your family growing up?"
~Complicated

"What's your word?"
~?

"Namely, that I am so grateful to be free tonight from the depression that had been gnawing at me like a rat over the years, a depression that had chewed such perforations in my soul that I would not, at one time, have been able to enjoy such a lovely night as this."
~AMEN!

"I walk thought the markets of this crumbly town and my heart tumbles with a love I can't answer or explain..."
~I've felt this before, usually when I'm in Pennsylvania, of all places, because that's where my soul feels at home.

"It was in a bathtub back in New York, reading Italian words aloud from a dictionary, that I first started mending my soul."
~I just Love that statement! I think I'd really have to think hard & take a look back to pin point the moment I began mending my soul, though I know when that journey specifically began.

Okay Cindy, Yoga for New Year's!



]]> <![CDATA[Jo added 'Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78722807 Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle (Hardcover) by Brian Dennis
bookshelves: to-read
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bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Jo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/233911-favorite-women-novelists Jo made a comment in the Scent of a Woman's Ink group:

Murder On The Orient Express is my classic Agatha fave. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Jo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/233921-is-literature-without-gender Jo made a comment in the Scent of a Woman's Ink group:

Interesting! I have that on a shelf some place around here. ]]> <![CDATA[Jo added 'Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78488025 Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II (Paperback) by June Wandrey
bookshelves: to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Jo added 'A Quilter's Holiday']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78487678 A Quilter's Holiday (Elm Creek Quilts, #15) by Jennifer Chiaverini
bookshelves: to-read
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