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The Reader | Sr. Grant Consultant II, Indiana University | Bookish | Love all things Vintage 🛎📯Avid horse racing fan

Indiana
Joined September 2008
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“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O'Connor – American Novelist 3.25.1925
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Our sweet boy— Bert + Autumn = Joy 🧡
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Sorry to see it go but welcome to November 🍂🧡
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Happy Halloween 🍂🧡
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This is exactly how I currently feel 💛
By contemporary painter Sarah Evans #Womensart #FridayFeeling
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My sister sent me this, a sky writer in CA over the weekend- hope your October is going well 💛🍂
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Let obvious health issues which affect a persons body or how they look compared to how they looked & felt prior to the illness or incident go—just pray for them, be kind & zip it~
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Fall Reading - #Libraries 🧡💛🍂
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Thumbelina, Kailey Whitman.
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Just a sweet little bee doing its thing- the zinnias are in fine form, the peonies spent— Looking forward to fall & hopefully cooler temps 🩷
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#Dogs, it’s Gone— Leo, Ness, Bert 💛🤎🧡
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Another end of day walk at the park 💛
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Life has been uncertain these past few weeks but being out in nature has helped- hoping for better days ahead~💗
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Beautiful evening at the golf course yesterday - I don’t play but love the drive to the top
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A start to the weekend with Bert, my best friend 🧡
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Direct order I can live with 🍑
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Dogs have been bred over millennia to meet our eyes with their own, offering a gaze of gratitude rather than one of appetite or fear. They are creatures of the nose, above all, olfactory rather than optical in their primary apprehensions. Yet in the course of our coevolution their eyes have come to mimic human eyes so that they would seem to look at us the way we look at them. “Dogs live within a neat symbolic divide. On the one hand, they represent courage, an intrepid readiness to take risks on behalf of their beloved; on the other, they represent loyalty, a refusal to be removed from the presence of their families. The dog in art both walks ahead with the hunters and stays behind with the gatherers,” Adam Gopnik writes. Read about the depth of the relationship between humans and their canine companion, and how that love has been transferred into art: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lQ…
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I understand too that our sweet dogs have only us, when they gaze & dream it’s only of their owners. We have the whole book but they have, only a chapter- something to cherish for sure~
Dogs have been bred over millennia to meet our eyes with their own, offering a gaze of gratitude rather than one of appetite or fear. They are creatures of the nose, above all, olfactory rather than optical in their primary apprehensions. Yet in the course of our coevolution their eyes have come to mimic human eyes so that they would seem to look at us the way we look at them. “Dogs live within a neat symbolic divide. On the one hand, they represent courage, an intrepid readiness to take risks on behalf of their beloved; on the other, they represent loyalty, a refusal to be removed from the presence of their families. The dog in art both walks ahead with the hunters and stays behind with the gatherers,” Adam Gopnik writes. Read about the depth of the relationship between humans and their canine companion, and how that love has been transferred into art: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lQ…
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The cure for boredom is books. There is no cure for books.
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