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2024

Speaker for the Dead
·1785 words·9 mins
Book-Swap 2024 Reading-Challenge-2024
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question…
Le Petit Prince
·69 words·1 min
Book-Swap 2024 Reading-Challenge-2024
Since there aren’t any friend stores, people don’t have friends anymore. If you want a friend you’ll have to befriend me.
Ender's Game
·2085 words·10 mins
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The way we win matters.

2023

You Were Watching From the Sand
·2422 words·12 mins
Book-Swap 2023 Reading-Challenge-2023
I forgot that laughing could be easy, like breathing, like blinking, like being before that fateful day.
The Body Keeps the Score
·7365 words·35 mins
Book-Swap 2023 Reading-Challenge-2023
The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
·2718 words·13 mins
Book-Swap 2023 Reading-Challenge-2022
A divided kingdom cannot resist the onslaught from an adversary. A divided human being cannot face life with dignity.

2022

108 Zen Parables
·1239 words·6 mins
Book-Swap 2022 Reading-Challenge-2022
I’ve read other Zen books but this’ll be the first one I actually post about; they’re more like Zen Tweets.
I Hope You Stay
·1786 words·9 mins
Book-Swap 2022 Reading-Challenge-2022
You will ache. You will dream. You will love. You will heal. You will rise.
You've Reached Sam
·1466 words·7 mins
Book-Swap 2022 Reading-Challenge-2022
How would I hang up the phone when the person I’m talking to is going to disappear? Wouldn’t it be a nice to just go back to the way things used to be?
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
·1353 words·7 mins
Book-Swap 2022 Reading-Challenge-2022
Sometimes, even without going to bed I change all at once! Have you ever had that? Suddenly the power of knowledge and understanding strikes me and I wonder who I have been all that time up until that point.
The Book of Sand - El libro de arena
·2265 words·11 mins
Book-Swap 2022 Reading-Challenge-2022
It makes me proud to make “The Book of Sand” the first book I write about on my blog. I hope to not do it an injustice with the scantness of my words.