BOOK OF THE DAY:
FRIENDSWOOD, by René Steinke.
Dear Ones —
Followers of this page know that I often spontaneously recommend books that I love. Today's book is a brand new one, just published a few weeks ago, called FRIENDSWOOD.
This is an extraordinarily beautifully-written novel, set in a remote town in Texas, in the aftermath of an industrial accident. But it's really about life, death, and love in a small town, on a big scale. Steinke (a National Book Award Finalist, and a genius at descriptive prose) understands her characters and her setting so intimately that it makes your heart ache to enter their lives. You worry for them, you pray for them, you breathe with them…
Read this one, you guys. It's really, really good.
(And don't just take my word for it — O Magazine loved it, too, calling it: "Masterfully observed." Actually, all the reviews are raves.)
HAPPY READING!
Heart,
LG
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Friendswood
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A big, moving novel of one tight-knit Texas community and the events that alter its residents’ lives forever. Friendswood, Texas, is a sm…
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A friend of this page shared this photo today and it made me laugh out loud this morning.
And it's exactly what I needed to see.
I'm leaving today to head to Atlanta, to begin rehearsals for Oprah Winfrey's THE LIFE YOU WANT TOUR. For those of you who haven't heard about it — Oprah's doing an incredible 8-city-wide, weekend-long stadium tour across America this autumn, inspiring people to change their lives…and she has invited me to be part of it.
(Here is the link for information and tickets: https://ift.tt/1jv3erI)
I'll be giving a speech about quests and adventures and women's courage….and I will be totally channeling my inner warrior princess, in order to pull it off!
Needless to say, I have never spoken before to a stadium filled with 15,000 people.
It makes my knees weak and it makes my stomach tumble in fear.
But it also makes me want to ROAR.
I say this to you all the time, but today I am saying it specifically to myself: ONWARD!
Heart,
LG
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I LOVE WHAT CARRIE HAS DONE HERE…
Take a look, everyone. It's a beautiful idea.
Identity Box: An Experiment in Discovering Who I Am
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by Carrie Maya For the month of August, my goal was to figure out who I am separate from being a poet. I drew most of my identity from it. And it became incredibly toxic for me as a person because …
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THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS reaches Poland! 🙂
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Great to read in Poland, near Warsaw 🙂 And 'The signature of all things' is 'The botany of soul' here 😉 Greetings from Green!
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You know you can. You really can. Whatever it is. You can.
Go do it.
Heart,
LG
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