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“And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from cold to hot and then back again, each new set of boulders so absorbing, so new, and the newness so absorbing, and I was so in need of an explanation for each thing, that I was often in tears, troubling myself with questions, such as what am I and what is the thing in front of me.”
― Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
― Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of populist communion...At such times it is as though the still small pool of one's own identity has been overrun by a great flood, bringing its own grand collective desires and resentments, scouring out that pool so thoroughly that one no longer feels fear or sees the reflections of oneself but is carried along on that insurrectionary surge. These moments when individuals find others who share their dreams, when fear is overwhelmed by idealism or by outrage, when people feel a strength that surprises them, are moments in which they become heroes—for what are heroes but those so motivated by ideals that fear cannot sway them, those who speak for us, those who have power for good? A person who never feels it is condemned to cynicism and isolation. In those moments everyone becomes a visionary, everyone becomes a hero.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Books & Lunch @ April's
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Read, eat, discuss. Once a month, on the 3rd Thursday.
Read, eat, discuss. Once a month, on the 3rd Thursday.
Ian's Book Club (2019)
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— last activity May 26, 2019 07:52PM
A few good books that you might not read on your own.
A few good books that you might not read on your own.
April’s 2023 Year in Books
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