Category: reading
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A few days ago I posted some quotes from author Pico Iyer. Then I decided to bring one of his books along on my upcoming travels and selected The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home. He wrote it at the turn of the century, such a distant time. It was…
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Getting ready for a three-week journey, I’m thinking about fresh ways to think. In that, I’m helped along by writer Pico Iyer, a fascinating author who at first blush seems to be writing about travel, but has something to say about various qualities of human experience. Here are a couple of quotes to give a…
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Yesterday, with the hubris of someone who conceives a grand plan without considering what a pain in the butt it will be to accomplish, I announced I would try reading a French detective novel in French as a way to improve my very sketchy language skills. Here’s what that looks like. The paragraph below is…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 