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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

May 16, 2022 by Live & Learn 10 Comments

Where to go from here?

— Delia Ephron, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir (Little, Brown and Company. April 12, 2022)

Notes:

NY Times Book Review by Joyce Maynard: “Delia Ephron’s Memoir Could Be Called ‘Love, Loss and Love Again’” ….”But let’s not forget, Delia Ephron is part of the team who created “You’ve Got Mail.” If there’s such a thing as a feel-good memoir, this is it.”

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Sound of the drums / Beatin’ in my heart / I’m Thunderstruck

September 2, 2015 by Live & Learn 15 Comments

Joan of Arc was not stuck at a crossroads…
she chose a path,
and went down it like a thunderbolt.

~ G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Notes:

Credits: Quote Source: Thank you Mme Scherzo. Image: Mennyfox55
Post title Inspired by AC/DC’s Thunderstruck: I was caught / In the middle of a railroad track. (Thunder) / I looked round / And I knew there was no turning back (Thunder) / My mind raced / And I thought what could I do (Thunder) / And I knew / There was no help, no help from you (Thunder) / Sound of the drums / Beatin’ in my heart

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I don’t know. I passed through it once, but I’ve never really been there.

December 7, 2014 by Live & Learn 28 Comments

Important to stick with this short film until the finish…

onism – n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die-and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here.

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