Sex & Shenanigans

I shared my bumblebee this morning … what do you the rest of you have .. show me something.
Something that inspired you …
Something that made you smile …
Something you are proud of…
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This is where my soul lives. This is the reason I keep moving back to the Pacific North West. This is stone and sea and sky. It only lacks trees to give you the things in the outdoors I love.

This park is hidden, and very few people ever come here. It juts out far past the breakers behind us. When Jimmy Buffett died, this was where I set up a chair and drank a lovely rum from Cannon Beach that tastes far more like whiskey (sorry, Jimmy, not a rum lover) and sang for hours. This place is outside The Garden --it is the wildness of God.

Wow, that went places I didn't think it would...
 
No, I haven't.

I started Abercrombie, but he doesn't appeal to me. Have you tried Malazan: Book of the Fallen yet?
That's fair. He's not for everyone. There's depth to his characters, but not to the story or themes. He tells a captivating, fantastic story, but there's not much else to it. It's a world to get lost in, not to learn from. I haven't yet, I haven't read much of anything lately, haven't been in the frame of mind.

Z&tAoMM is a weird one for me. First, I read it when I was practicing Zen Buddhism, and found it lacking on that side. And it is very much an artifact of its time and feels...smug. I enjoyed what it was, and how it uses the text metatextually to present a way of thinking, so I appreciate it more than like it. And honestly, it spends hundreds of pages on "quality" to get something anyone studying Plato gets on day one of ethics class.
In contrast to Abercrombie, Zen& feels like a book you'd learn something from, but instead I see it as a story. One in which we get to see someone else experience and discover the themes of the book. It is not for me, I am merely an observer into this fictional characters mind. I love it for what it is, not for what it tries to teach.

Doppler I had not heard of, but I plan on hunting (heh) it down.
Yay! It's a strange journey. Enjoy ♥️

Very nice list!
Thank you! Yours as well, albeit not a surprising one ;) Every one of your picks fit you to a T!
 
I am watching The Gentlemen on Netflix and Kaya Scodelario who plays Susie Glass 🥵 makes me want to do so many deliciously inappropriate things to myself. Or let her do them to me.
 
I had the worst morning ever! I was scheduled for a training session in another place which is hour and a half away. Of course we had to get a dump of snow out of nowhere. And I drifted off the highway twice because there was too much sludge which hadn’t been clear. Now I’m learning something which I don’t even do in my job in the first place. Blech!
 
That's fair. He's not for everyone. There's depth to his characters, but not to the story or themes. He tells a captivating, fantastic story, but there's not much else to it. It's a world to get lost in, not to learn from. I haven't yet, I haven't read much of anything lately, haven't been in the frame of mind.


In contrast to Abercrombie, Zen& feels like a book you'd learn something from, but instead I see it as a story. One in which we get to see someone else experience and discover the themes of the book. It is not for me, I am merely an observer into this fictional characters mind. I love it for what it is, not for what it tries to teach.


Yay! It's a strange journey. Enjoy ♥️


Thank you! Yours as well, albeit not a surprising one ;) Every one of your picks fit you to a T!
Other than my first, the other four could be rotated in and out a lot. And I was keeping non-fiction out of it. But thank you!
 
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