pickSuper funny, laugh out loud audio book that I needed right now. BUT- I listened to it with headphones because i didn‘t want my kids and mother (who is visiting) to hear the colorful language 🤣
It‘s my wedding anniversary today! 17 years....and the sweetest thing I can do is let him sleep 💤...about to begin this book with a cup of tea and enjoy the quiet morning before it gets too hot 🥵
pickQuick, informative read that describes the author‘s experience as a art history student and then working in the field. Drew lays out a string message about how art and activism can and should support each other. Whenever museums reopen, I will see the spaces, the people who work there and the ones who visit in a different light because of this book 📖
pickI was floored with how many controversial issues and perspectives were part of the plot in this book! Very human stories, both heartbreaking and up lifting at the same time. This is a great read for people on both sides of the issues of abortion, gun control, and raising children.
pickI think I read the book 5 years ago? Loved listening to the audio! Many happy hours (12 hours, 38 minutes) walking, cooking and cleaning while listening.
Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.
The modern woman is a blur of activity. She is pressured to be all things to all people. The old knowing is long overdue.
“....every day he would take great pains to cook himself a little mouthful of paradise, unaware of how refined his everyday fare was, a true gourmet; he lived every day as an authentic aesthete, where absolutely nothing was staged.”
I know they are all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don‘t understand that it‘s really their own self that they are mad at.
How many old women in the countryside are gifted in this way with an extraordinary sensory intuition which they applied to their gardening, or to making herbal potions, or to cooking rabbit stew with time, old women who then die as unknown geniuses, their gift ignored by all....
“The real ordeal is not leaving those you love, but learning to live without those who don‘t love you.”
“She smiled, but the smoke she inhaled was bitter. When she had been safe and respectable, so had the world been safe and respectable; now the entire world was bitter with deceit and danger and loss; and which was the greater illusion?”
pickLoved this audio book 📖 It is history, economics and ethics in one. It helped me understand the framework and language to discuss sustainability in our economy. It made me think about the effects of capitalism and how to survive it without getting caught up in it.
pickFun listen! I liked it much more than I thought I would!
“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters.”
pickI liked this audiobook. It kept me motivated and looking at tasks and work in general from a different perspective.
Vivaldo sat at his work table, struggling with a chapter which was not going well. He was terribly weary – he had worked in the bookstore all day and then come downtown to do a moving job – but this was not the reason for his paralysis. He did not seem to know enough about the people in his novel. They did not seem to trust him....the pattern he wished them to describe was clear to him. But it did not seem clear to them.
“If the world wasn‘t so full of dead folks maybe those of us that‘s trying to live wouldn‘t have to suffer so bad.”
“I‘ve always thought of you,” she said, “as a very nice person.” She gave his arm a little tap and pushed a crumpled bill into his hand. “It might help if you thought of yourself that way.”
It has been on my shelf for YEARS...today I took it off and started 📖🧡
She likes the mystery of that changeover, those fifteen minutes of sundown when the streets and trees and people and parked cars are delicate and immediate, every sound and smell and movement amplified by the lowest light or the lightest darkness. Even a city that‘s broken and dirty can, in that time, be divine and intimate.
“I have found that anytime I am suffering, there is a good chance I am speaking to myself negatively in some way too...you cannot change what you do not observe.”
Over the past month or two, a few friends and one or two family members told me that I was being a little hard on myself. And that was based on what I said out loud! If they only knew what I think and don‘t say! Anyway, when I saw this book in the library last week I figured it might be worth checking out (pun intended 😂) Now that the libraries are closed for the time being I feel extra grateful that I have it.
“There is soft air and yellow sunlight and drifting pollen where he was, and me and Pop embracing in the grass.”
“The world is a tangle of jewels and gold spinning and throwing off sparks. I‘m already home.”
“Through Misty‘s narrow kitchen window I could see the tops of the trees turning from a dark velvet gray to orange, from palest orange to a pink the color of the inside of my mouth.”
“Say what they say, some may doubt the existence of God, but everyone is certain of the existence of love.”
pickThis book was wonderful on different levels. First, because there are references and recommendations for places, writers, artists and musicians that inspire Cisneros. Second, the essays are masterful! Each one is a jewel. I admire her writing and the way she embraces the many follies of being human.
“I have always been a day dreamer, and that is a lucky thing for a writer. Because what is a daydreamer if not another word for a thinker, visionary, intuitive—all wonderful words synonymous with “girl.””
“My family suffers stories no one dares to tell.”
I do what I always do when I‘m lost: I take a nap. When I wake, I ask myself this: What is the story we won‘t tell? And when is the time to tell it?” 📸: Montage, Laguna Beach
“It‘s not half as tiring to talk as it is to listen.”
“When I‘m tempted buy a dress because I think it‘s going to be handy, I think twice about it. Those handy dresses, so-called, I should say a woman won‘t get as much out of one of those as she will out of a really frivolous dress.”
“I do want to create art beyond rage. Rage is a place to begin, but not end.”
“I want to believe that everyone falls in love with a book in much the same way one falls in love with a person, that one has an intimate, personal exchange, a mystical exchange, as spiritual And charged as the figure eight meaning infinity.”
”Books and more books, and more changes to the house one calls the self.”
“And poetry, of course, is like magic.” “Bread,dreams and poetry. That‘s all I‘m after.”
