Today's Lesson

Buying a birthday card for someone with a brain tumor is really hard. It took me like...an hour of constant reading before I found one.

"Life isn't minutes, it's moments" takes on a whole new morbidity, in that circumstance.

It's the little things

I am uncommonly upset that there is no 2013 reading challenge for Goodreads up yet. How am I supposed to commit to a reading goal for the new year without a widget?!

Feeling this...

You were not born to be average, normal or typical.

You were not born a carbon copy.

You were born unique, born to excel, born to manifest the glory of the universe in your authentic spirit.

You are not weak.

You are stronger than you imagine, wiser than you know, and have vast powers that you have yet to actualize.

Stop playing small.

Be YOU. Tell your truth – now, today, this very moment.

Manifest your true self – not a poor reflection of your circumstance.

Don’t walk through this world unconscious of your greatness, sleep walking, surrendering your light to the bland grey around you.

You were born to be brilliant,

to be light,

to be fire.

Infuse your glory into this moment, into your choices, into your deeds, into the habits you create.

Consciously choose:

Choose your body through conscious consumption.

Choose your attitude, through conscious thought.

Choose your destiny by being present right now – for remember mindful moments multiplied, totally transform tomorrow’s.

Today choose integrity, choose discipline, choose joy, choose joy, choose joy.

Rejoice in your blessings AND, most importantly, know that EVERYTHING is a blessing.

And your blessings are rich soil.

So choose to grow into the boldest, proudest, most glorious version of YOU.

You were born for this.

Cory Booker

Books 83 - 85

I just finished Maggie Stiefvater's "Wolves of Mercy Falls" trilogy, and I have to say that I feel like she's grown so much as an author since she wrote these. They're still beautiful, with lots of short zippy chapters and shifting points-of-view that keep the story moving along, but having read The Scorpio Races first, I can see the clear development of her skill. I'd still recommend these to people who like YA novels, but I don't think these were her best work. I have her newest, The Raven Boys, on request at the library, and I hope it's as good as The Scorpio Races.

Book 82 for the year

The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R. by Carole DeSanti
My rating: 1 of 5 stars


A good idea, but god, the execution was terrible. Sentence fragments were abundant and frustrating. I wanted to read this, but life's too short to parse this mess for meaning.

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Adorable Potatoes

Nearly bought these at Whole Foods tonight, just because they were tiny and adorable. Had no immediate ideas how to prepare them...just, you know, SQUEEEEE!

I shouldn't be allowed at the grocery store with a debit card, sometimes.

ETA: The picture doesn't really do these justice. They were like marbles. Teeny.

Bad at blogging...

I used to be able to do this multiple times a day, every day. Now weeks go by and I never feel like I have any thought worth committing to pixels. What gives, brain?