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So, the VRBO I’m staying in right now has about four books on the shelf, and one of then is Ernest Hemingway’s collected short stories. I’m reading “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” for the third or fourth time in my life. I thought of it when I read this line in your piece:

“Why rush the words? After all, the easiest way to be done is never to have started.”

As the man in “Snows” lay dying, he laments all he never sat down to write.

Which is to say your writing really resonates today. As always! Thank you.

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Stuck with a Hemingway book. Assuming you have some good strong coffee too. You're set

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Chris jones book is absolutely the epitome for me. The Swine Republic allows me to try to mimic Harriet Tubman. In the sense. Do not give up….. I have this fantasy that actually life is this game. and we are team players. And I am on Chris team. When I give someone Chris book and they understand. Our team makes a touchdown. When chris wrote the book. He provided me with the information. If only people knew. This is not all gloom and doom. Hey thanks for publishing the book. All teamwork.

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Thanks. Hopefully he sees this

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Thanks Helen for these lovely words

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"Not unrelated: When I was about eight years old, I married (without scandal) the music of birds and stillness." --- Lovely.

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Thanks

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Wonderfully and so perfectly put.

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Thanks, Roy

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You've made "less is more" come alive, in reflecting on both writing and life. Thank you for giving me the perfect early-morning read. Your evocative images and wise words will stay with me.

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Thank you!

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I liked this: “I think the best writing might be done with one eye closed and the other wide open.” That’s also kind of how I am trying to just live my life these days.

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Agreed. Its a good way to get the whole picture somehow. Known & unknown

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"Our nation’s need for everyone to feel “correct” has become an epidemic." Brilliant and true. Also true this epidemic is to the detriment of our governing process and authority.

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“This morning was nearly the start of my life.”♥️

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