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Monica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Monica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Monica T. S. Flores’s Followers (4)
563 books
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2,374 books
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834 books
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5,364 books
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736 books
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473 books
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The Ideas behind Storytelling
I keep an ongoing list of ideas that I’d like to explore, and the list has grown quite long, with multiple items now “checked off” with a green checkmark and put into the “addressed” section. I find this to be similar to the mechanism we use at my tech job where we have a backlog and a working “board” of tickets, which eventually get slotted into a work cycle and finally marked as done. Done, in t
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
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“If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that. If you are not on the right path, you will experience roadblocks all along the way, and this is also the Universe telling you to stop, look, and ask if this is where you are supposed to be.”
― Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
― Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
“A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon.
Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”
A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.
Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.”
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Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”
A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.
Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.”
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