Author: resolutewoman
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When should you be angry?
I mentioned that I’m angry and distraught that we have to make major repairs to our home’s foundation and plumbing. The news was shocking, but I am absorbing it—and remembering something my mother said often. “You can tell the size of a person by what makes that person angry.” Yes, the news was terrible. But,…
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Throw away your anger
I am angry and distraught that our house needs extensive foundation and plumbing repairs. Yikes! That’s why something I read in the April 26, 2024 issue of The Week was helpful. Write down your angry feelings and then immediately throw the paper away. You’ll feel much better, a Japanese study reports. –Joy
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Good friends
My dog Jack is a very good friend—and so are my books! “Books may well be the only true magic,” Alice Hoffman once said. –Joy
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Books everywhere
I haven’t counted my books. They are everywhere—in my study, in my kitchen, in my bedroom, in all of the bedrooms. If this quote is true, I have lived more than a thousand lives! “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one,” says George R. Martin.…
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Keep reading
Yikes! I am getting rid of books. Because I have too many books. Still, it’s difficult. And, of course, I’ll keep reading—and buying more books. As Dr. Seus says, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” –Joy
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Two gay penguins
In the award-winning documentary “The ABCs of Book Banning,” Ridley, who’s nine years old, discusses the children’s book And Tango Makes Three. It’s a book about two male penguins who adopt a baby penguin. Ridley says: “It’s about two penguins that are gay with each other and, even though they have their differences from the…
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Rosa Parks was tired
A children’s book called Rosa by Nikki Giovanni is one of the banned books named in an award-winning documentary “The ABC of Book Banning.” These are words from the book: She sighed as she realized she was tired. Not tired from work, but tired of putting white people first. Tired of stepping off sidewalks to…
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Ambitious girls
Aren’t girls supposed to be ambitious? Persistent? Assertive? And, confident? I watched an award-winning documentary—”The ABCs of Book Banning”—and I discovered that a children’s book by Meena Harris titled Ambitious Girls is one of the books that has been banned. Here are some words from the book: Persistent means I won’t give up. Assertive means…
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To make sense of the world
“The interconnectedness of the seemingly unrelated is how we make sense of the world,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.
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To cope with life
“We do need humor to cope with the absurdity of human reality,” write Einar and Jamex de la Torre in the words that accompany their art exhibit at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa.