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Matt’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology

Happy Anyway: A Flint Anthology by Scott Atkinson

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You will find no such endings here. That is not to say you will not find happiness, but what you will find are a lot of middles, stories about continued attempts at endings.

Matt’s Quotes

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.”
― Bill Watterson

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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
― May Sarton

tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude

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“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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Anarchist & Radical Book Club — 2451 members — last activity Sep 01, 2024 07:58AM
This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more

Scottish Wanderlust Book Club — 203 members — last activity Jul 06, 2021 06:08AM
Welcome to the Scottish Wanderlust Book Club! We read books related to Scotland, and often have Zoom discussions with special guests related to the su ...more

Nature Literature — 782 members — last activity Sep 09, 2024 11:48AM
Whether it be an in-depth look at our natural world through essays written by past and present authors such as H.D. Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Cars ...more