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Jonathan Bracker
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Training In Tenderness
This book can change your life. If it changes enough people's lives, it could change the world. It is short, wonderfully written, and speaks about something many of us have overlooked: the danger of being overly concerned with our own individual happiness at the cost of ignoring most every one else in the world.
the author is wise, warm, wonderful human who has written other books. The Intelligent Read more of this blog post »
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Concerning Poetry: Poems about Poetry (Booktree Poetry Series, 2)
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Civilian Aboard U.S. Navy Ship at Sea (Summer Kitchen Series, #2.03)
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2011
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Paris Sketches
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2005
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Attending Junior High (Editor's Series, #4.06)
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Prose Passages Of Thomas Hardy Arranged As Verse: A Little Patch Of Shepherd's Thyme
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2013
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Some Poems About Women
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1993
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Constellations Of Clover: Poems
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1973
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This Day
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2015
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Love Poems of a Gay Nerd
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New Poems
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Wishing Well: Making Your Every Wish Come True
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I am finding this book well worth reading. Wishing is not just for children. It can help us find what we want. Wanting is an OK thing to do.
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It is one of the most influential books I have read.
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I am enjoying the book immensely, due to Proust's warmth, kindness, dry humor, and ability to convey details convincingly.
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“Lying On The Grass
The solid earth has never yet complained.
There is only the slight scrape
Of the accommodating grass
Adjusting around your body its bent blades.
Part the grass with fingertips
To follow the travels of ants
And expeditions of other insects
Through the weeds.
On your forearm
A light green mite
Is blown when you breathe
From its perch, a sunlit hair.”
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The solid earth has never yet complained.
There is only the slight scrape
Of the accommodating grass
Adjusting around your body its bent blades.
Part the grass with fingertips
To follow the travels of ants
And expeditions of other insects
Through the weeds.
On your forearm
A light green mite
Is blown when you breathe
From its perch, a sunlit hair.”
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“Two Stories Up, The Cat Looks Down
When the blind is lifted, positioning itself
On the edge of the desk near the bay window
Several times a day
The cat looks down.
Many people when the sun is out
Come and go, beneath.
Among its sightings are
Young fathers with a son or daughter shouldered
Holding with a consistently light touch the held-out legs
Like wishbones.”
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When the blind is lifted, positioning itself
On the edge of the desk near the bay window
Several times a day
The cat looks down.
Many people when the sun is out
Come and go, beneath.
Among its sightings are
Young fathers with a son or daughter shouldered
Holding with a consistently light touch the held-out legs
Like wishbones.”
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“Remarked
The night was warm
And breathless.
Crickets chirred.
"Close the screen,"
She said,
"You'll let stars in.”
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The night was warm
And breathless.
Crickets chirred.
"Close the screen,"
She said,
"You'll let stars in.”
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“Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.”
― The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery
― The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery
“It’s new territory, and I’m learning to live in it. To do that, I need to overcome thousands of years of programming that adversity is a constant requirement of existence. We need to savor our success, first for seconds at a time, then for minutes that grow into months.”
― The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
― The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
