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Rae’s 2025 Year in Books
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In the Shadow of Silence
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The Silence between the Notes
The silence between the notes is what makes the music. I was told this more than once. But on the other, contradictory messages were louder…
As a pianist trying to become legit, I was eager to do it right. In my eagerness, I raced through the music; you see, in a jazz band, especially in a big band, it is a sin to lag. One day, the band leader raised boath hands and bellowed “STOP!” Twenty-three st
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“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it “quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“The job of the decision maker wasn’t to be right but to figure out the odds in any decision and play them well.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“In an interview I did with David Brooks in 2019, the genially conservative New York Times columnist reflected on the social agony criticizing Trump had caused him. “I had been part of the conservative movement my whole life,” he told me. “The Weekly Standard. The Wall Street Journal National Review Washington Times. Suddenly, I wasn’t the kind of conservative all the other conservatives were, and so my social circles drifted away.”
― Why We're Polarized
― Why We're Polarized
“Do I know how to love, how not to harm, how to protect and defend, how to be sanctuary? I have believed from the moment I gave birth to Alex and Benjamin, my kept children, that I know the obligations of a mother’s love. My two young sons are growing up inside their trust in me. I try so hard to be a good mother. I am safety, tenderness, praise. But I am also, always, the child cast out to the world a long time ago. I move between the sorrows of my past and an unrelenting will to love my children well. I am child, and I am mother.”
― Without a Map: A Memoir
― Without a Map: A Memoir
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