Hmmm— I’ll share quotes from the book with you then— at some point.
nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fzap9xwt203qtkhtk4 can you tell me what you know about Albert Camus’ novel THE FIRST MAN?
from my 📸 archives (Oakland, Pittsburgh PA) #bookstr 
*Beloved* by Toni Morrison is a heartbreaking work of genius — one of my favorite books.
For those you not on insta ❤️ I deleted Twitter— so I get it.
“I was involved in writing Beloved at that time—this was in 1983—and eventually I realized that I was clearer-headed, more confident and generally more intelligent in the morning. The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.” ~Toni Morrison
A perfect 🎶 team. GN https://youtu.be/G1ECm3ltBsk
This was on my mind in a similar way. I imagined my nieces connecting to certain relays— sometimes it a huge trigger for me.
“In his 1883 study Nature Near London Richard Jefferies has a vibrant passage enumerating all the wild flowers he encounters on a single roadside verge. Conspicuous among them are buttercups, cowslips and dandelions. The Jefferies passage is quoted late on by Robert Macfarlane in this compelling new study, Landmarks, and it ties in poignantly with a turn of events he has cited earlier.
These words, he tells us, along with others, such as ash, acorn, bluebell, otter, kingfisher and heron, were deliberately excised from the 2007 edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary as being no longer relevant to children's experience. It's out with willow and heather and in with blog, broadband and chatroom. It isn't, Macfarlane says, a case of either/or: both sets of nouns and what they signify have a place in the world of today. But life is unquestionably impoverished if you do away with bluebells, conkers, larks and other common words denoting nature and natural forces.” https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review-landmarks-by-robert-macfarlane-1.2138519
From my archives #bookster 
“After the war, the cult of the catacombs began to grow. Increasing numbers of people were drawn down into them for purposes of concealment, crime, or pleasure. These users of the network became known as “cataphiles”—“lovers of the below.” In 1955, access to the catacomb network was made illegal, with the exception of a small area of show ossuaries that were kept open for purposes of tourism.” The Invisible City Beneath Paris https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-invisible-city-beneath-paris
“‘A peak can exercise the same irresistible power of attraction as an abyss,’ wrote Théophile Gautier in 1868, and the reverse is also true.“ ~ Robert Macfarlane
https://lithub.com/why-are-we-driven-to-explore-the-very-depths-of-this-earthly-abyss/
📸: my sister & me— she ran the race & I cooked breakfast for my family— hoping to catch a few fireworks tonight. The parade & games were a success. 4th of July 💙❤️💦 And— the sun was out — it’s been extremely cloudy/rainy this summer in Pittsburgh. Hope all is well in Nostrville. 
Fear not… 🔜 #paradefun 
#Pittsburgh 💙❤️ 
Life is good— the kids got me a mystery lollipop at the parade 💙❤️ 
all ready for the oven… egg & ham bake. Wish I had fresh chives though. #foodster 
Time to prepare the next dish 🍳 