tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554671041186726858.post8812595571269363666..comments2008-04-09T22:40:48.028-05:00Nenette AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04519714210354478057noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554671041186726858.post-42841795961565986092008-04-09T22:40:00.000-05:002008-04-09T22:40:00.000-05:00It is always that way with taking risks.<BR/>To put it differently, very often a risk is worth taking smply for the sake of taking it. There is something enlivening about expanding our self-definition, and a risk does exactly that.<BR/><BR/><BR/>p123 of The Artist's Way by Julia CameronEJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554671041186726858.post-45833669737935141872008-04-06T18:08:00.000-05:002008-04-06T18:08:00.000-05:00okay, jen, come on over! you can have a go at my book collection too :)nenette@lifecandy.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04519714210354478057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554671041186726858.post-5530123146760339032008-04-05T02:32:00.000-05:002008-04-05T02:32:00.000-05:00I feel like Harmzie, my reading lacks steam! Can I borrow some of your books as well?<BR/><BR/>"Autobiography of a Face," Lucy Grealy, p.123:<BR/><BR/>"I remembered being in second grade and looking out on a group of sixth-graders preparing for graduation. It had seemed like an unimaginable length of time before I'd get there. But now I was out there mingling in the courtyard, remembering the day when I laid my head down on the desk and announced to the teacher, "I'll never make it."Jen Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04330865463813652213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554671041186726858.post-75288016534727574592008-04-04T16:42:00.000-05:002008-04-04T16:42:00.000-05:00yikes! hurry over! you can borrow as many books as you like :)nenette@lifecandy.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04519714210354478057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554671041186726858.post-45123594131325940812008-04-04T13:53:00.000-05:002008-04-04T13:53:00.000-05:00You are clearly reading more interesting fare than me.<BR/><BR/>My "nearest" (I chose "to my bed" as my initial point of reference, since that's where I usually read and that's where my books larger than 123 pages are) book was "Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook". After blowing a significant layer of dust off of it and considering to myself that "Handbook" was a very poor title choice, as it actually has its own climate, I opened it to page 123 and found various MS pontifications on various "essential" kitchen utensils, including a dissertation on candy thermometers vs meat thermometers & a bit on graters, Graters, GRATERS!<BR/><BR/>OK, next best book: bio on QE I. Page 123 happens to be the end of a chapter, so didn't have three sentences on it.<BR/><BR/>Next: "The Mathematics of Life" OMG. This is just getting worse...<BR/><BR/>Finally: Jane Jacobs "The Death & Life of Great American Cities". I think I'm on to something. Page 123: I did this last night, so I don't have the direct quotation, but it doesn't matter, since it was about declining neighbourhoods due to crack addiction, and the details of how that happens.<BR/><BR/>I'm coming to raid your library...harmziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718439326736163120noreply@blogger.com