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Okay great, I think this is month 5 of doing a monthly reading post. I like this. It motivates me to finish books and think about them for 30-seconds, instead of the usual, thank u next. AND I can tell the internet what I think about them instead of bothering people I work with. Win.…
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Alright – Now that we’ve got the background out of the way, it’s time to read around the world. Passports and IDs out and ready everyone, shoes off, laptops in a bin…just kidding. Here is an Instagram post I made on December 30, 2018. The caption reads: “For 2019 (2020, 2021…) I am going to…
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I’ve thought a lot about (am thinking a lot about?) starting a YouTube channel where I document my ~reading around the world journey~. I’ve even gotten so far as to record the first video, decide the lighting isn’t great, find my partner’s GoPro, try and set that up…and then it stops there. It’s not something…
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It’s basically half way through April, so it’s time to write about what I read in March! Which was…not much. I’m still not finished with A View of the River. So instead of finishing that, I started two new books! First, Upon Silver Wings II by CarolAnn Garratt and Carol Foy. They hold the world…
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I keep telling myself I’m going to start a YouTube channel documenting this trip-around-the-world-in-books. And I keep not doing it. So obviously, I don’t care that much. Anyways, I just finished reading The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste for the country of Ethiopia. I can’t remember why I decided to do Ethiopia; honestly, I think…
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Part 1 – the long part I recently sat down with a mentor to talk about being burnt-out-on-being-burnt-out-on religion. I am at a place where I feel like I’ve read everything on the internet about Christian fundamentalism and half the books that have been written in the last decade or so. I’m really, quite frankly,…
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I guess most people blog on Substack now. I like what I have here and I don’t want to switch to Substack. I’m suspicuous of Platforms(TM); although, arguably, WordPress is a platform. I’m not going to put a server in my basement or get an AWS account though (alternatives to Substack or WordPress), so here…
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I have a problem with finishing crafty projects. I tend to get to about 65% of the way done and then put it down for months. I have the same problem at work, too, although there I’m getting a paycheck which gives me the motivation to wrapitup. I’m not sure why I have this tendency;…
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In the last two years, I haven’t read as much as usual because I was studying for my private pilot certificate. Now that goal is accomplished and I can return to my usual volume. I’ve been asked how many hours per day I spend reading. The answer is: “Not that many.” I usually read for…
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I think the brief Internet Trend Age of curated aesthetics is ending. It’s pretty disappointing; after all, what is more satisfying than a Pinterest board full of assemblies of objects that give “Ravenclaw” or “Dark Academia”? Not much. I dig a Dark Academia aesthetic day. Before I moved to the city on the prairie, I…
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