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listening

June 1, 2020 l m andersonLeave a comment

My problem is that I think too much. Thoughts getting discombobulated and overwhelming as I sift through streams of information, trying to piece everything together in my mind to create the most astute, most inspiring, most clear-headed perspective. There are ideas and facts and opinions, various ways of looking at things and as they all [...]

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I rarely cry when reading a book. When I do, I always attest to the power of honest, atmospheric writing. Such is the nature of Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell. Tears swelled as I felt the grief of a mother. This book is beautifully written and the story so masterfully crafted. “So she cannot bear their gaze, cannot meet their eyes. She doesn’t want their sympathy and their prayers and their murmured words. She hates the way the people part to let them pass, and then, behind them, regroup, erasing their passage, as if it were nothing, as if it never were. She wishes to scratch the ground, perhaps with a hoe, to score the streets beneath her, so that there will forever be a mark, for it always to be known that this way Hamnet came. He was here.”
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I finished this book tonight and cannot recommend it enough. It is so deeply relatable, thought-provoking, tender, and altogether lovely.
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Birds are chirping as Daisy chases a toy she repeatedly sends skittering across the hardwood. And I am here, fully present, listening to every creak and groan of my home, to the sound of Daisy’s paws, to every song delivered by birds. I am in the presence of good books and good coffee. But, more importantly: the presence of a good God.

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