Sharon Younkin's Untitled Blog

Sharon Younkin's record of whatever catches her eye on any random day

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Pathways to Success: How Practicing Civility, Collaboration, and Leaders...

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And if you were of the lucky sort, sometimes that life chose you back.

TJ Klune, from The House in the Cerulean Sea (via the-final-sentence)

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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via bookmania)

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (via bookmania)

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It's World Sleep Day

Log off.

Go back to bed.

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Pronominal Strife - Los Angeles Review of Books

Bryan A. Garner considers "What’s Your Pronoun?," the recently published book by Dennis Baron.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Pronominal Strife

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Business Coaching and Mentorship for the Female Entrepreneurs - She Ange...

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Female Entrepreneur Designs Modest Activewear - She Angels | Episode Three

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Female Entrepreneur Empowers the Women and Girls of Cambodia - She Angel...

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An America That Could Explain: On Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Barack Obama’s new memoir is a book hiding within a book.

Los Angeles Review of Books: An America That Could Explain: On Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land”

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Reclaiming Black Beaches: On Alison Rose Jefferson’s “Living the California Dream” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Eisa Nefertari Ulen considers "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era" by Alison Rose Jefferson.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Reclaiming Black Beaches: On Alison Rose Jefferson’s “Living the California Dream”

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Shells and Spheres of the Self: On Marilynne Robinson’s “Jack” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Ben Libman reviews “Jack,” the fourth installment in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Shells and Spheres of the Self: On Marilynne Robinson’s “Jack”

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Fund Women-Save the World | Catherine Gray | TEDxDelthorneWomen

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America Starts Here: On “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Dean Rader considers “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry,” edited by Joy Harjo.

Los Angeles Review of Books: America Starts Here: On “When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry”

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Rise Up - Andra Day (Cover)

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Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine - Los Angeles Review of Books

Talking to Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, about the “social industry"

Los Angeles Review of Books: Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine

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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Official Trailer | Netflix