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month of Thanksgiving #10 — a good book is bliss
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Britton Gildersleeve
As I’ve said as recently as this week, and just in general, reading is a big deal to me. So maybe that’s a big gratitude. But one book? That’s surely small enough to make the everyday list. I just finished a marvelous book. It was on the library’s reserve list for MONTHS. I”m serious: I…
month of Thanksgiving #8: the New Yorker and its companions
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Britton Gildersleeve
I adore the New Yorker. Even when the stack of unread ones that accumulates from time to time reproaches me. Currently I’m reading (still) the Food Issue. MY FAVOURITE! Reading about food is almost as much as eating it. Seriously: something there is about food lit that comforts, seduces, educates, and just plain pleasures. When…
month of Thanksgiving #7: the cat formerly known as Hektor
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Britton Gildersleeve
This is Hector (formerly w/ a ‘k’, now w/ a ‘c’ to indicate he’s MINE). He used to belong to my sister. My sister has the landlady from … well, very hot climes. And said landlady, DESPITE my sister paying a pet deposit, is threatening consequence for her (totally legal) pets. So Hector came to…
month of Thanksgiving #6 (short but sweet)
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Britton Gildersleeve
Today was/ continues to be one of those blah days when good things happen, but you don’t always see them at first. Or, you don’t even have the energy to acknowledge them (how sad is THAT?). So my gratitude is for self-kindness. VERRRY hard, folks. We’ll tell a sister, brother, friend: it’s okay. No big…
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