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A jury of peers interrogated Captain Sully after he saved the lives of an entire plane. Save five weeks in 1959, God left Mother Teresa for the duration of her fifty-year ministry. ... the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see,--Listen and do not hear--the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... Trump became president.  Prince is gone. Abraham Lincoln was shot, Martin Luther King, Jr, was shot, the BBC's Mary Watson, a skilled former agent, was taken down by a bitter old hag. The pattern is there since the start of time and yet it is only now, in my 47th year, I have seen and understood that things that shouldn't happen do. I had spent much energy fighting this reality, which is curious because I have a Guest House approach to most of life: allow things to happen, let visitors and new experiences penetrate and meld you, don't think you have more control than you do. Yes, I work in the fitness field and make sure my clients know ...

Twenty-one books! This is the lowest record yet, and I'll just go ahead and chalk it up to a divorce year, where time was spent reading court orders and custody guidelines and not as many New York Times bestsellers. Instead of dividing the books into random, invented categories, as I usually do , let's stick with two this year: titles--actual wording of titles--I could apply to my year of divorce, and the others I couldn't. The latter category is smaller than the former, which is why this experiment is so interesting. I mean, come on; I finished "When Things Fall Apart"! By coincidence! Nicholas Sparks could not have planned this better. Titles I Read That Coincidentally Could Easily Be Applied To Said Divorce, and Require Some Use Of Your Imagination • When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron • Promise Land, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro • The Woman Who Walked In Sunshine, Alexander McCall Smith • The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson • Bluets, Maggie Nelson • Between The W...