Melissa Acedera

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Melissa is Currently Reading

Melissa Acedera is currently reading

Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

by Lana Dee Povitz

bookshelves: history-social-science, currently-reading

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Dec 26, 2019 12:55PM

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The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude

by Thubten Chodron

bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction, cookbooks-food, buddhism

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Oct 15, 2019 02:40PM

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The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action

by Alison Hope Alkon

bookshelves: history-social-science, cookbooks-food, currently-reading

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Oct 15, 2019 02:36PM

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Melissa’s Quotes

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

tags: demands, life, living, novels, science-fiction, world

286 likes

“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

295 likes

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

tags: embracing, hurt

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“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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