Tag: bekkah’s bookclub
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luxury · home · convenience
I’m reading The Battle for Paradise by Jeremy Evans. It’s one of the other titles I purchased when I stumbled upon Barbarian Days in Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore on college Ave. The Battle for Paradise presents a primarily journalistic telling of Pavones, Costa Rica’s conflict over its environment and surf slash fishing – centric way of […]
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when life is loud
Once upon an October I decided to be Quiet. I met with my friend and tried to explain why I’d be speaking less in our church small group, and probably saying less between us. I walked far without music and I tucked in silence things that sometimes seemed important to articulate. I came to realize that the […]
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Barbarian Days
In a perfectly timed synchronism that only a Sovereign God of the Universe could achieve, I discovered Ocean Beach precisely one week before reading about it in William Finnegan’s surfing memoir, Barbarian Days. One week sooner and it would have forever tainted my own self-discovery and realization that Ocean Beach, San Francisco is totally my vibe. Seven […]
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happy happy joy joy
A little over six months ago, I decided to start believing that the best is, in fact, Yet To Come. I’m pretty cynical by nature because Disappointment has shredded my soul. I am fiercely intense and not nearly as resilient as other people seem to be slash actually are. So I needed this confession to be an authentic […]
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