Feb 11, 2019
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you are not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias. And the difference between them.
Rumi (Balj, 1207-1273)
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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you are not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias. And the difference between them.
Rumi (Balj, 1207-1273)
Day 128: #hereweare edited by #kellyjensen—this primer on #feminism is probably the first time I felt comfortable describing myself as a feminist—because of the #intersectional approach. Everyone needs to read this #anthology #365books #yalit #nonfiction #bookstagram
Day 44
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation (1819)
«Life is presented as a continuous scam, both in the small, as in the big things. If life has promised something, life does not keep it and, if it does, it is to show us how undesirable the desired thing was: sometimes hope deceives us, sometimes what is expected. What has been given is to snatch. The magic of distance shows us paradises that disappear as optical illusions as soon as we approach. Accordingly, happiness always lies in the future, or also in the past, while the present resembles a small dark cloud that the wind pushes on the surface exposed to the sun: in front of and behind that cloud, all it's luminous, while only itself continuously projects a shadow. Consequently, the present is always unsatisfactory, but the future is uncertain and the past irreversible».
Day 89: #wherethesidewalkends by #shelsilverstein—for #nationalpoetrymonth—probably the first collection of poetry I ever read. These made me laugh out loud. Plus, his name was so close to mine! #365books #kidlit #poetry
Day 72
Max Weber (1864-1920) - A speech Max Weber gave to the Verein fur Sozialpolitik (Association for Social Policy) in 1909
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones - a state of affairs which is to be seen once more, as in the Egyptian records, playing an ever-increasing part in the spirit of our present administrative system, and especially of its offspring, the students. This passion for bureaucracy..., is enough to drive one to despair. It is as if in politics... We were deliberately to become men who need "order" and nothing but order, become nervous and cowardly if for one moment this order wavers, and helpless if they are torn away from their total incorporation in it. That the world should know no men but these: it is such an evolution that we are already caught up, and the great question is, therefore, not how we can promote and hasten it, but what can we oppose to this machinery in order to keep a portion of mankind free from this parcelling-out of the soul, from this supreme mastery of the bureaucratic way of life.”
*Quoted by J. P Mayer (1944): Max Weber and German Politics.
Day 127: #ilivedonbutterflyhill by #marjorieagosin—set in Chile during the 1970s and #pinochet about a little girl whose world is torn apart when her parents disappear. Heartbreaking tale of transitions, immigration, and family. #365books #latinxreads #bookstagram #middlegrade #purabelpre
Day 126: #summerofthemariposas by #guadalupegarciamccall—more sisters!! Retelling of #theodyssey with a mix of Mexican mythology and cast of strong girls #yalit #littlewomen #365books
Day 125: #thependerwicks by #jeannebirdsall—another charming #littlewomen readalike—just want to be friends with these sisters #kidlit #365books #middlegrade #bookstagram