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You took the fun out of that behavior by naming the purposive nature of the behavior for the child.
“Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?”
― The Moon by Night
― The Moon by Night
“Wealthy white suburbs continued the trend of actively excluding black families in implicit and explicit ways, sometimes by using existing natural landmarks. Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., the largest urban park in the National Park system separates Chevy Chase, a wealthy white enclave “from the increasingly black neighborhoods” proliferating on the nearby landscape of Maryland (Loewen 2005, 124).”
― Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
― Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
― The Moon by Night
― The Moon by Night
“Research shows that teens with empathetic parents actually have lower levels of systemic inflammation—a biological marker of emotional stress—but we tend to breeze right past offering empathy and instead serve up reassurance.”
― The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
― The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
“Hate can be helpful to certain causes. It unites a group quickly, it gives a person identity—even if it is a negative one—and, most of all, it takes away doubt and all free-floating anxiety. It gives us a place to stand that feels superior and in control. Hate settles the dust and ambiguity that none of us like. Hate is much more common, and more immediately effective, than love. Hate, as we will sadly see below, makes the world go ’round.”
― The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder
― The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder
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Graham’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Graham’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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584 books
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49 friends
416 books
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1,036 books
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93 friends
496 books
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2,349 books
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146 books
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