Marissa
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Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components, the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural
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“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
― Varina
― Varina
“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
― Varina
― Varina
“All ministry begins at the ragged edges of our own pain,”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
The Emma M. Lion Appreciation Society
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A place to discuss our love for The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, The Q, and any and all other masterpieces written by Beth Brower! Feel free t ...more
Close Reads - Unofficial
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A group for the Close Reads podcast
Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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