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Unlocked by Margo Kelly7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I’ve learned to defeat the power and pull of dejection by dabbling in activities that reboot my system. Other Creative Pursuits Help Writers Reboot Their Souls When I returned home, I felt like my soul had been rebooted. The second half of the trip, I set up a table and wrote nonstop for seven days. The first few days with no technology were a challenge, but I went on walks, listened to the river, napped, and read books. My solution was to leave-go away on a two-week camping trip into the boonies with no internet, no television, and no phone. ![]() ![]() One time, I truly struggled to climb out of that dejection pit. In the publishing world, rejection never ends it comes from agents, editors, industry reviewers, and readers. The biggest emotional challenge of being a writer is avoiding the bottomless pit of dejection. Likewise, if my brain is sluggish (from poor health, poor eating, or poor sleep), I’m incapable of creativity. If I let in too much negativity (from social media, the news, and other people), I lose my creative energy. The key to my creativity is cultivating a positive and active brain. ![]() Barefoot in paris cookbook7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I find that French people really are welcoming. Before, if people did speak English, they wouldn’t speak English to you. But I think it’s changed dramatically in the past 20 years. I speak enough French so that I could get by easily. You can just do that and go home satisfied.Īny suggestions for travelers who don’t speak French? ![]() To just sit outside at 10 o’clock at night is wonderful. My idea of the perfect meal in Paris is an omelet and a glass of champagne at Flore. Or for a Parisian café experience, Café de Flore is really quintessential. It’s great because there’s everything you could possibly want for giving a dinner party within a few blocks, and I love to give dinner parties in Paris. I’m also near Marianne Robic (39 rue de Babylone), a great flower shop. ![]() I live on the border of the 6th and 7th arrondissement, between three things that I think are the best things in Paris: the bread bakery Poilâne (8 rue du Cherche-Midi), the cheese shop Fromagerie Barthélemy (51 rue de Grenelle), and Bon Marché (38 rue de Sèvres), a huge specialty food store that’s amazing. They have all the produce and cheese and everything you can imagine in a market, including an American guy who makes muffins. It goes from Cherche-Midi to Rue de Rennes. Three times a week I go to the Boulevard Raspail market. The one in front of my apartment on Boulevard Raspail. What street markets do you like to visit? ![]() ![]() To pursue God is to know Him, and in our knowing be drawn in. "Arise, O sleeper!" is his word to us, and yet if we heed the call, we will see that to arise is not to stand, but to kneel before the God of heaven in humble contemplation. Tozer writes from his knees, a posture fit for presenting the character of God in all its demanding grandeur. He reminds us that life apart from God is really no life at all. With prophetic vigor and flowing prose, he urges us to replace low thoughts of God with lofty ones, to quiet our lives so we can know God's presence. Tozer brings the mystics to bear on modern spirituality, grieving the hustle and bustle and calling for a slow, steady gaze upon God. So it is in this Christian classic by the late pastor and evangelist A. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. ![]() Sometimes the voices that speak most clearly in the present are those that echo from the past. The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. Tozer's bestseller, this book has been called "one of the all-time most inspirational books" by a panel of Christian magazine writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, it’s still a fairly standard teen love story: Girl and boy from different social circles meet, face obstacles from family and friends, and fall in love.įeminists may recoil, but fans of light romance will discover a satisfying weekend read. Wren and Grayson share the narration chapter by chapter, and their witty banter moves the story along. The stereotypical male-female dynamic takes hold: Wren becomes the reformed con artist’s “moral compass,” and she spends too much time overanalyzing his actions and apparent disses, pretending she doesn’t care when he doesn’t return her texts. When Wren saves him from choking on a cocktail weenie at a wedding reception held at her family’s banquet hall, the Camelot Inn, their lives become a game of Mars vs. Grayson Barrett is a repentant player and self-described “term-paper pimp” trying to distance himself from his crew of baddies and leave his manipulative ways behind. ![]() 49 out of 102 students, Wren has never stood out from the crowd. High school junior Wren Caswell has entered her “semester of discontent.” Denied entry to Sacred Heart Academy’s National Honor Society for being “too quiet” and ranked No. Good girl tames bad boy in Constantine’s first novel. ![]() Daniel deronda by george eliot7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Deeply unhappy, she turns for friendship to Daniel, only to discover his involvement with Mirah Lapidoth, a talented young Jewish woman. Although the two are immediately drawn to one another, Gwendolen, outwardly alluring and vivacious, inwardly complex and unsettled, is forced by circumstance into an oppressive marriage with the harsh aristocratic Henleigh Grandcourt. The story opens memorably at a roulette table, where we first meet the young and idealistic Daniel Deronda and the enchanting Gwendolen Harleth, whom many critics consider to be George Eliot's finest creation. What begins as a passionate love story takes a surprising turn into the hidden world of the early Zionist movement in Victorian England. George Eliot's last, most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda aroused scandal when it first appeared in 1876. The present text follows the third, or Cabinet, edition of 1878"-Title page verso "Daniel Deronda was published in eight parts in 1876. ![]() Anastasia lowry7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() The book was banned at Spook Hill Elementary school's library in 2005 after a parent complained that the content, particularly Anastasia's comment about killing herself, is inappropriate. Initially Anastasia does not want to move because the new house is in the suburbs, which Anastasia thinks are inferior, but over time she warms to the idea and makes new friends in suburbia. In it 12-year-old Anastasia is confronted with the challenge of her parents deciding the family is to move out of their city apartment which has become too small for their needs following the birth of Anastasia's baby brother Sam. ![]() ![]() It is part of her Anastasia and Sam series and the sequel to Anastasia Krupnik. Anastasia Again! (1981) is a young-adult novel by Lois Lowry. ![]() The night watchman pulitzer prize7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “The book is about how people fight for one another, fight for their communities, and try so hard to get things right and put things into a caring, loving perspective - and if not that, into some kind of perspective that can benefit as many people as possible in a community,” Erdrich said. government's efforts in the 1950s to “emancipate” the Turtle Mountain band and other tribes and end federal recognition of these tribes in order to force them off their ancestral land. It tells the little-known story of the U.S. The novel is based on Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. It includes universal themes of community, family, love, and freedom. “The Night Watchman” is set near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota in the 1950s. The One Book, One Community reading project - now in its 11th year - centers on a community-wide reading of a single book and is dedicated to creating a shared conversation along with a range of related events and activities for residents of all ages. ![]() Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Night Watchman,” was selected as the 2022 One Book, One Community title, and Erdrich discussed her book in the Centrum at Concordia College on Oct. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Third time’s a charm? In this case, not really. But what’s really scaring Liv is that the dream boys seem to know things about her in real life, things they couldn’t possibly know-unless they actually are in her dreams? Luckily, Liv never could resist a good mystery, and all four of those boys are pretty cute…. They’re classmates from her new school in London, the school where she’s starting over because her mom has moved them to a new country (again). The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream. Especially the one where she’s in a graveyard at night, watching four boys conduct dark magic rituals. Yes, Liv’s dreams have been pretty weird lately. ![]() Penric's demon7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() It was like if a man was standing in front of my mother and would start to beat her. There were times were we would see it happen in front of us. Then she would come out of the bedroom and have all these bruises. My room was right next door to my mother’s. In 2009, Doris’ son Brian Harris, who was 10 years old when the demonic activity was taking place, spoke about the attacks: Barbara Hershey starred in the film adaptation of the same name in 1983. Author Frank De Felitta used Taff and Gaynor’s findings as the basis for his book, The Entity. They were skeptical, but observed a series of strange phenomenon (bruising, orbs, unexplained activity) that became part of an extensive report. Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor, later investigated the claims. The events were dismissed by doctors who suspected Doris’ alcoholism and abusive history led the woman to injure herself. Doris Blither, a single mom with four children and a troubled past, claimed she was being violently raped by ghosts. An unassuming home in Culver City, California became the site of a vicious demonic attack during the early ’70s. ![]() |