Our BOOK, ART, and MUSIC club!
This page is here for all the FUNNESS!! Including books, art, and music which I have learned from and enjoyed throughout my time here on the Oregon Coast! I hope you enjoy some of them, too! Many of these have been recommended to me from family and friends and I am just wanting to pass them along as well! (AND I am so excited to see your recommendations and inspirations on Our Group Chat! :)
"Culture does not make people. People make culture" (pg. 46).
We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"'It is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is'" (pg. ?)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"One thing I has always believed in was my own potential, and I knew it didn't lie in filing paper and collecting payments as a secretary in an auto garage. Nor, as much as I loved my children, did it lie in simply raising them" (pg. 33).
This Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
"She is night as well as day. Cruel as well as tender. She who creates can also destroy..." (pg. 107)
Lilith by Nikki Marmery
"What is one, is both. What is two, makes three. What lives shall die. What dies shall live" (pg. 23)
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Flowers in Bloom
Piece inspired by:
"Physical entities were not greater or less than one another, not similar or dissimilar; they simply were, they existed" (pg. 86).
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Intersectionality Invisibility: the idea that just becuase they are a bigger group, doesn't mean they are the stronger ones, for the small groups have learned tactic.
"Beneath the hush was a humming underground of defiance" (pg. 208).
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
"The pine she leans against says: Listen. There's something you need to hear" (pg. 4).
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Journeys to the Chief
"What is here can serve to guide you in further research, and in leaning from the best source of all - You" (introduction).
An Encyclopedia of Your Subtle Body: Energetic Anatomy by Cyndi Dale
"...Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
W. H. Murray
"Once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock" (pg. 134).
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
"All cities burn. All cities crumble. We build them up again and again...If your temple is the ocean, it cannot wash away. If your temple is the mountain, it cannot burn. If your temple lives within you, you need not travel to find it" (pg. 523).
The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand