something particular & real

hi, hey, hello. my name is sloane. I am an equal opportunity baked goods consumer.

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Books I Read in 2023.

Spare by Prince Harry (audiobook)

The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns (audiobook)

The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy by Ann Rule (audiobook)

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (audiobook)

Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia by Carson O. Hudson, Jr.

Atomic Habits by James Clear (audiobook)

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (audiobook)

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation by Jon Ward (audiobook)

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (audiobook)

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands by Jon Bellman (audiobook)

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution by H.W. Brands

What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher (audiobook)

Is It Hot In Here?: Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed On Earth? by Zach Zimmerman

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford (audiobook)

American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church by Andrew L. Whitehead

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton (audiobook)

Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer - America's Deadliest Serial Murderer by Ann Rule (audiobook)

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster

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Books I Read in 2022.

The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri

Hiking Shenandoah National Park by Bert and Jane Gildart

Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans with Jeff Chu

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse (audiobook)

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (audiobook)

Bible Gender Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships by James V. Brownson

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry selected by Paul Kingsnorth

Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way and Presence by Diana Butler Bass

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer (audiobook)

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (audiobook)

She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh (audiobook)

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper

Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins

The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff (audiobook)

God is Here: Reimagining the Divine by Toba Spitzer

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain (audiobook)

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (audiobook)

The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle (audiobook)

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)

Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery (audiobook)

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Columbine by Dave Cullen (audiobook)

Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things by Sophie Woodward

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg (audiobook)

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

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those quiet moments in the in between. // september, 2022

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USIA poster, 7/30/1953, NARA ID 5730043.

VOTE ON TUESDAY!

The 2022 midterm elections will be held on Tuesday, November 8, and there's still time to ensure you're registered to vote. The National Archives supports Executive Order 14019, which promotes voter registration, participation, and access to voting. See Vote.gov for more information.

USIA poster 10/8/1951, NARA ID 5730163.

American Forces Information Service poster, 1/1/2000, NARA ID 10488372.

Office of War Information, WW2 poster, NARA ID 515775.

More online:

Civics for All of US the National Archives new education initiative promotes civic literacy and engagement.

Voting Rights Special Topics page.

Presidential Elections & Inaugurations Records in the National Archives and Presidential Libraries document elections and inaugurations through history.

Black Americans and the Vote This research portal highlights National Archives holdings that relate to the long struggle for equality in voting rights.

Women's Rights: Suffrage Discover an array of records related to the long quest for women to gain the vote as well as education resources, articles, and blog posts.

Online exhibit: Records of Rights presents records in the National Archives that document the ongoing struggle of Americans to define, attain, and protect their rights

Online exhibit: Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote highlights the struggle of diverse activists throughout U.S. history to secure voting rights for all American women.

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me + my wife on our fourth anniversary.

charlottesville, va.

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I guess I'll start gabbing over here again since twitter is going down in flames.

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The Kiss™️ - Part 3. (Part 1 - Part 2)

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every time I experience an emotion I purchase something online it's as simple as that

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it’s friday, but still.

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From The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry.

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Books I Read in 2021.

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (audiobook)

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Circe by Madeline Miller

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2029 edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain

The Book of Hallowe’en: The Origin and History of Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley

God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines (audiobook)

Dusk Night Dawn: On Revival and Courage by Anne Lamott

Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff (audiobook)

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn (audiobook)

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe

Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising by Jürgen Moltmann

Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman (audiobook)

Trick Or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (audiobook)

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin (audiobook)

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Books I Read in 2020.

The Only Plane In The Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garret Braff (audiobook)

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (audiobook)

The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill (audiobook)

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin

Untamed by Glennon Doyle (audiobook)

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (audiobook)

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (audiobook)

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum (audiobook)

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada (audiobook)

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Fresco of Diana Pompeii 1st Century AD

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middle east educational resources

so one of my modules this year was on the politics of the contemporary middle east, and it’s also pretty clear to me that not many people are aware of the history of the region and why it is quite unstable, so here’s a list of some resources i used, maybe this can educate some of you 

what is the arab spring? / death of fear - the arab awakening  / how colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war / the middle east’s cold war explained / history of the persian gulf / history of north africa / the rise and fall of isil

egypt what was the 1967 six day war? / political history of modern egypt / egypt - the revolution

algeria a chronology of the algerian war of independence 

libya front lines of the libyan revolution

palestine al nakba: the history of palestine since 1799 / everything you need to know about israel palestine 

syria syria’s war explained from the beginning / the boy who started the syrian war /

jordan king hussein of jordan: survival of a dynasty / king hussein of jordan: on a knife edge

lebanon lebanon: sibling of syria

iran iran 1979: legacy of a revolution / the tension between american and iran explained

iraq the iraq war 

yemen yemen’s complicated war / why is yemen at war

saudi arabia history of saudi arabia / 

united arab emirates uae explained  / why is dubai so rich

qatar the qatar blockade 

bahrain bahrain - shouting in the dark

these don’t cover the whole history of the region or even all the countries but it covers most of the big events, if you wanna know more do your own research of course

crisis in the middle east carrd

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“They say Jesus was a friend of sinners, but he didn’t describe himself that way. His motto wasn’t “eating and drinking with prostitutes and tax collectors.” Those were the labels used by the religious community, by the disapproving onlookers. What’s amazing about Jesus is that when he hung out with sinners, he didn’t act like they were sinners. They weren’t a “project,” a “mission field.” They were his friends. People with names. Defined as beloved children of the Creator, not defined by their sins. Icons of God’s image. His brothers and sisters.”

— Micah J Murray,  Why I Can’t Say ‘Love the Sinner/Hate the Sin’ Anymore