Book Nook Cafe discussion

Wow, to "save your soul"!

Way to go Walter. So true. Reading is a respite for the craziness of the world.

Author Patricia Digh on the New Year:

"At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:

1) What do I want to create in this New Year?

And, perhaps even more importantly,

2) What do I want to let go of?"

Source: Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally-Patti Digh

Part two is an excellent idea. I will keep that in mind as i ponder 2023.

That is wonderful food for thought. I just requested that my library buy Life is a Verb. It sound wonderful.

Rachel wrote: "That is wonderful food for thought. I just requested that my library buy Life is a Verb. It sound wonderful."

Cute cover, too

Rachel, that’s a 2-fer for next year’s challenge. It could cover # 4- A book you chose simply because of its cover and #11-A book with a verb in the title. “Is.”

I heard this one on the Lewis Howes' The School of Greatness podcast today.

In an age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Yes, it is a cute cover. I hope they buy it.

I saw this an wanted to share.


WORD FOR THE DAY
Behold this day, for it is yours to make.

BLACK ELK

Nice quote, Rachel. A positive way to start the day.

I agree about the Black Elk quote.

The one from the podcast makes an excellent point. This last year i have been deliberately ignoring so much, partly due to this age of information. There is only so much i can take.

Then i get moments when i ask, "What happened to my interest in ancient Greek pottery?" I still thrill when i see it but it's been pushed away by the immediacy of the internet. Gotta think on that some more.

Today the quote attributed to Charlotte Bronte
I do not look forward or backward but look upward.

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."
― Anna Quindlen

Rachel & Alias, you two have ended the year with thoughtful quotes. I must have read the Bronte quote but do not recall it. Very wise.

I like the "hurricane lamp of self" image from Quindlen, too.

Thank you.

The Anna Quindlen quote is spot on.

Again from Grateful Living

WORD FOR THE DAY

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that’s a whole different thing.

LUCILLE CLIFTON

I so enjoy Lucille Clifton poetry. Rachel, thanks for the thoughtful words & a reminder of the woman.

Wow, I had no idea who she was. Mandrano thanks for the link. I appreciate it.

Sure thing, Rachel. She wrote some winners!