Rebecca 📖
@Avonleebythesea
“all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” English teacher/writer. The Rapture of the Deep: A Collection of Short Stories https://a.co/d/b9gsVdq
Friends, I have very exciting news! The lease for my bookstore space, which I’ve been negotiating for months, has been approved! I cried when I found out…it feels surreal. The space and location are absolutely perfect, now the work to get it ready, which I have 4 months to do.…
I think about this often; every joy brings eventual grief, everything beautiful ends with death (though through the resurrection, this is renewed). So many seem to live in such perpetual fear of the consequence of love or joy, that they never truly experience it…and yet anyone…
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal." ~ C.S. Lewis, 'A Grief Observed' 🎬 Shadowlands (1993)
This keenness in youth to talk with & learn from adults is something you see a lot of in classic literature. The Brothers Karamazov especially comes to mind; there is so much energetic discourse between generations & particularly men & boys. I wonder too if it is not just a lack…
Today I had an experience I've not had in 10 years -- or more, all things considered. I was chatting with an old friend of ours outside her apartment, on the lawn. A boy across the street was fooling around with a soccer ball. He's 16, and built like a middle linebacker. She…
A snippet of Baltic Sea Oksana Salminen , 2023. Finnish , b. 1966 Oil on stretched canvas
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and…
Too many books have a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they are weak on dragons.
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…
I rewatched Dead Poets Society based on posts saying Robin Williams was the real villain. And the dad of Neil is ‘the hero.’ Total horse shit. I presume people say this to make a splash. But forcing your artistically inclined son - who is getting As in all his math and science…
One of the more disgusting things I’ve ever seen on this site
This won’t be easy for people to hear, but there are only about 200 professed Catholics still living in Gaza and they all support Hamas.
Do you ever read something and think with something like an electric shock “ugh, this person is inside my head…saying just what I want to say so perfectly that it hurts”? This is the best kind of reading experience.
Not to brag or anything but I’m X friends with a bookstore owner who is about to open one of the coziest bookstores.
It’s coming together
Listen to Josh, he’s had some absolutely priceless (and somehow contentious, lol) advice this week: Read the King James Bible and Anna Karenina, read 4 pages of Shakespeare a day to get through his entire work in a year
Life isn’t complicated. We make it complicated Just lock in to ~5 goals. Ignore everything else Pick whatever goals you want. But then everything else has to go. You won’t “have time” because you’re distracted but stuff you don’t even really want
People really don’t read science fiction anymore, do they?
At the World Economic Forum, our spokeswoman proposes a creative rehabilitation method: instilling false, painful memories to enforce legal coercion. Perhaps the very flaws in the human mind’s subjective haze are what we can turn to our advantage.
What I find puzzling and interesting about NPR is the same thing, in miniature, that I find puzzling about liberalism in many contexts: the utter inability to impose limits on itself, even when the failure to do so is obviously self-destructive. If NPR had even pursued its…
For a few generations now we’ve been teaching young people of white European ancestry that there is something inherently wrong & evil in them, that they should be filled with shame & national pride is a form of racism. What did we expect would happen? Arty is right, until we can…
Europe is dead set on partying their lives away, going from city to city and stabbing all ethnic cultural hopes in the back. They seem even less serious than Americans I feel like free yearly summer visits to Muslim countries for young people after or during college might make…