*Honest, raw, soulful: This is not your run-of-the-mill celebrity memoir—Field goes DEEP!*
Wow! What an amazing book! Definitely my favorite memoir of *Honest, raw, soulful: This is not your run-of-the-mill celebrity memoir—Field goes DEEP!*
Wow! What an amazing book! Definitely my favorite memoir of 2019 so far. Tear jerker of an ending. 💔
"Like flipping a switch, I began to bubble" ... Sally Field gives us all her walled off sections, slowly building from her childhood on.
I came into this book knowing almost nothing about Sally Field, other than she was in Forest Gump, Mrs Doubtfire, and maybe I'd heard of The Flying Nun.
This book is an IN DEPTH look at Sally Field's life starting from childhood. I don't want to spoil any of her revelations, although if you read too many reviews you'll probably find them. I had no idea.
This book is meaty, tough, touching, and powerful. Field is beyond insightful as she dissects her past successes and failures, writing unflinchingly about missteps and gut wrenching moments—most likely because she wasn't sure if she'd ever publish it. Writing for herself, Field took seven years (and lots of therapy) to complete this book which shows in the meticulous intimate revelations and astute phrasing.
At its core, this is a book about relationships, family, and a personal understanding of one's self. Field had a complicated relationship with men but more importantly, with her mother—something that wasn't (sort of) resolved until shortly before her mother's death.
It's not hard to see why In Pieces was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, a Sunday Times Book of the Year, and nominee for the 2019 Audie Award for Autobiography/Memoir and Goodreads Choice Award Best Memoir/Autobiography 2018. ...more
Not a bad book, but I should have probably vetted this a little harder before jumping in.
It's like cramming for Jeopardy ... if Jeopardy was a bunch oNot a bad book, but I should have probably vetted this a little harder before jumping in.
It's like cramming for Jeopardy ... if Jeopardy was a bunch of scientific answers to unpractical, impossible, fictional questions.
TL;DR — Useless information overload.
The only thing that kept me from abandoning was Wil Wheaton reads the audiobook, and I'm a fan. Gave me flashbacks to when he read Ready Player One....more
Not *that* bad, occasionally interesting — you probably already know most of it.
Yes, the internet is affeClearly written in 2009 (published in 2010).
Not *that* bad, occasionally interesting — you probably already know most of it.
Yes, the internet is affecting our brains!
“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”
“We become, neurologically, what we think."
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.”
“Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”
“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiriting new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies. And the very existence of the attentive, critical reader provides the spur for the writer’s work. It gives the author confidence to explore new forms of expression, to blaze difficult and demanding paths of thought, to venture into uncharted and sometimes hazardous territory. “All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain,” said Emerson. “They knew that the intelligent reader would come at last, and would thank them.”
“Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages of a book. The medieval bishop Isaac of Syria described how, whenever he read to himself, “as in a dream, I enter a state when my sense and thoughts are concentrated. Then, when with prolonging of this silence the turmoil of my memories is stilled in my heart, ceaseless waves of joy are sent me by inner thoughts, beyond expectation suddenly arising to delight my heart.” Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing, or the mind. Readers disengaged their attention from the outward flow of passing stimuli in order to engage it more deeply with an inward flow of words, ideas, and emotions. That was—and is—the essence of the unique mental process of deep reading.”...more
So reads Lisa Randall's fortune cookie fortune that her Roomba almost picked up. And the day she decided to write this boo*What is the speed of dark?*
So reads Lisa Randall's fortune cookie fortune that her Roomba almost picked up. And the day she decided to write this book, a meteor burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Fortuitous timing?
For humans on the brink of a possible 6th extinction, possibly not.
But also, it's hard to say ... because ... we're still in the dark. About many things, primarily, dark matter.
Dark matter is quite the enigma. Who can say what it is or what it does? Randall does a great job of presenting facts and science. Aside from the two personal tidbits I shared above, this book is largely devoid of character and strictly scientific analysis.
A little dry, and very ... transparent. Straightforward without a lot of flim flam. Sometimes science writers can get too wrapped up in dumbing down their work for the common man, or adding extraneous elements such as humor to their approach (*cough* Mary Roach *cough*), not so Lisa Randall, which I actually appreciated.
"Dark matter is not dark—it is transparent. Dark stuff absorbs light. Transparent things, on the other hand, are oblivious to it. Light can hit dark matter, but neither the matter nor the light will change as a result."
Informative, interesting, but also largely speculative.
It wasn't a bad book, but it wasn't exactly a gripping read either. Don't expect much in the way of dinosaurs either, they didn't appear until the very end of the book.
On my way home tonight I passed a fistfight taking place in front of the pizzeria on the corner of Spring and Thompson. I'm not April 20, 1998 New York
On my way home tonight I passed a fistfight taking place in front of the pizzeria on the corner of Spring and Thompson. I'm not sure who started it, but the kick boxer won, literally hands down. _____________________
Dry wit, delivered in that soft deadpan Sedaris voice. 🏆
Personally, I wish I could listen to David Sedaris every time I clean the house. He makes everything more fun—literally laughed out loud more than once, and now that I’ve finished I can almost still hear him echoing in my mind.
A little different from his other books, this collection is still charming and 100% Sedaris. ❣️
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She told us to keep our sentences simple, and I didn't quite obey. But why write "I went to the store with a friend" when, without relying on the dictionary, I can say "I visited the slaughterhouse with my godfather and a small monkey"?
March 30, 1998 New York
Because I was in a bind with my BBC story, I devoted most of my day to defrosting the freezer. In the afternoon I called the delivery service to order some pot, and an hour later a guy named Stogie came to the door. After counting my money, he looked at the papers on my table and said, "Hey, are you David Sedaris? My wife really likes you." He asked if he could have my autograph and I was so flattered. I mean, here he was, a big-time pot dealer, and he wanted my autograph? It was sweet of him to ask, and his attention made it much easier to finish the BBC story....more
"Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are [those] ready to believe and act without asking questions.""Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are [those] ready to believe and act without asking questions." - Primo Levi
The Periodic Table traces Levi's family history using the chart of elements.
London's Royal Institution voted it one of the greatest science books ever written.
From the July 31st edition of The Writer's Almanac:
It's the birthday of writer Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy (1919.) He came of age when Mussolini was in power and, as was expected, he joined the movement for young Fascists as a teen. He was fascinated by science and graduated with a degree in industrial chemistry, but his diploma listed him "of Jewish race," and he was unable to find work in his field. Two years later, his family was forced to flee Mussolini's forces and he joined the partisan resistance. His group was taken prisoner, and on February 21, 1944, he and 650 other Italian Jews were transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz. When the camp was liberated by the Red Army almost a year later, Levi was one of only 20 of that group who survived.
A year after returning home, he met and fell in love with his future wife, Lucia, when she offered to teach him to dance at a New Year's Eve party. She also encouraged him to take up writing and he began to document his experience in the camps. He found work at a paint factory, but rather than commute he stayed at the plant during the week and used the quiet time at night to draft his first novel, If This Is a Man. A small press published it in 1947, but 10 years later, it had only sold 1,500 copies. Levi worked with a translator, and in 1958, the book was released in the U.S. under the title Survival at Auschwitz. He followed with books of poetry and more memoirs, including ...
“A clear-eyed look at the technology’s long-term impact has revealed a sobering truth: in the coming decades, AI’s greatest potential to disrupt and d“A clear-eyed look at the technology’s long-term impact has revealed a sobering truth: in the coming decades, AI’s greatest potential to disrupt and destroy lies not in international military contests but in what it will do to our labor markets and social systems. Appreciating the momentous social and economic turbulence that is on our horizon should humble us. It should also turn our competitive instincts into a search for cooperative solutions to the common challenges that we all face as human beings, people whose fates are inextricably intertwined across all economic classes and national borders.”
An excellent overview of AI where it stands, and where it's going. Took one star off as the last portion of the book was a little heavy handed with the whole, diagnosed with cancer, near death experience completely changed my life/views. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it is an important experience and gives a little bit of "heart" to an otherwise straightforward review of AI—but it's a little jarring after the excellent analysis of the first part and could have been saved for a personal memoir instead of a book on tech.
*However* ... Lee is writing from his own personal (extensive) experience with AI so, it gets a pass.
Deleted Facebook and Facebook messenger off my phone thanks to this book!
Hard not to feel guilty over phone use after reading, probably because I knowDeleted Facebook and Facebook messenger off my phone thanks to this book!
Hard not to feel guilty over phone use after reading, probably because I know I waste too much time on it.
Would read this one again to help ingrain the importance of living the minimally digital life.
“The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your 'likes' is the new smoking.”
***UPDATE***
It's been almost 2 months since I deleted FB and FB Messenger off my phone. Still loving it, and checking it less and less in general.
This book has remained top of mind since I read it, and keeps popping up in my life. If you're interested in a good discussion around Newport's books and ideas, Rich Roll interviewed Cal on his podcast and its an excellent episode.
"No longer need anyone ever be bored. Alone with one’s thoughts. Or simply present with one’s self.
The result is a global epidemic of distraction. A fomenting of loneliness and isolation. And a degradation of our humanity.
The solution isn’t Ludditism. Instead it’s agency. We need not be victims of technology. We have the power to liberate ourselves from the tether of digital dependency. And the freedom it creates isn’t just the salve to what ails us, it’s the gateway to that which we seek most. Meaning. True human connection. And a reconnection with our innate humanity.
Indeed, there is no substitute for real relationships. Boredom is useful. And focus is the new superpower." (RRP Episode 447)
Newport is the Marie Kondo of digital tidiness.
Solitude is essential for creating new ideas, solitude as in the freedom from input from other minds.
"Many people mistakenly associate [solitude] with physical separation—requiring, perhaps, that you hike to a remote cabin miles from another human being. This flawed definition introduces a standard of isolation that can be impractical for most to satisfy on any sort of regular basis. As Kethledge and Erwin explain, however, solitude is about what’s happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds." — Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism
Newport doesn't have to convince me, I'm a big fan of my personal time. Cal's call to Spend More Time Alone makes me think of Virginia Wolf's A Room of One's Own.
Really, I'll accept any theories that justify my proclivity for reading ... alone.
"In contemplating the Doria's tilted grandness, he could glimpse shadows of the secrets great shipwrecks offer those who s*Diving for history’s sake.*
"In contemplating the Doria's tilted grandness, he could glimpse shadows of the secrets great shipwrecks offer those who see with their minds."
This was my second Robert Kurson book after Rocket Men, and it’s clear he’s working from the same blue print.
Highlight event, then background on event, deeper history on individuals involved, minor related events, final analysis of main event ... more or less. Very formulaic, not necessarily in a bad way.
A very dear friend of mine lost her mother to a deep sea diving accident, so the life threatening aspect of the book was all the more vivid while reading.
Whether it’s rockets in space or submarines on the ocean floor—Kurson knows how to weave a thrilling true life adventure tale.
"In the course of two weeks he had contact with a U-boat ace, a blimp pilot, a historian, and the president of a U-boat club. Each gave accounts of history unavailable in books and sometimes at odds with books. To Chatterton, who had hungered since childhood for better explanations, for the chance to see for himself, this stretching of history's canvas was a revelation."
"Reading about men did not seem like book work to Kohler. Instead, he found himself transported; he could feel the inside of a U-boat not just as a machine but as the backdrop to a human being’s life. He could feel the grueling and claustrophobic conditions under which these soldiers waged war, the coldness of a live torpedo next to a man’s sleeping face, the smell of six-week-old underwear, the spittle in the expletives of men crammed too close to one another for too long, the splatter of a single icy condensation droplet on the neck of an enlisted man finishing a six-hour shift. Technical information interested him, yes, but technology did not make his heart pound—nothing did—like the idea of a U-boat man waiting helplessly while Allied depth charges tumbled through the water toward his submarine, the ominously dainty ping . . . ping . . . ping . . . of Allied sonar a prelude to imminent explosion."
"Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution." — WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp...more
Godin is the man! My 8th Godin book, this one was surprisingly good, and as always, right on point.
Recommended reading for anyone interested in careeGodin is the man! My 8th Godin book, this one was surprisingly good, and as always, right on point.
Recommended reading for anyone interested in career development. This one might get a second round, excellent reminders.
“The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship. Shipping means hitting the publish button on your blog, showing a presentation to the sales team, answering the phone, selling the muffins, sending out your references. Shipping is the collision between your work and the outside world.”...more
Extremely basic, and mostly common sense at this point, Purple Cow was surely more essential when it was first published in 2003. Tod~ Marketing 101 ~
Extremely basic, and mostly common sense at this point, Purple Cow was surely more essential when it was first published in 2003. Today, it's a decent reminder to stand out from the crowd, and recommended reading for anyone unfamiliar with marketing, or looking for a refresher.
I've officially drunk the Seth Godin kool-aid: this was my 7th Godin book and definitely not my last. (I liked Tribes, This Is Marketing, and The Big Moo more.) He knows his stuff, and is exceptionally masterful at approachable, bite sized marketing tips—making this 160 page book worth a visit.
“In your career, even more than for a brand, being safe is risky. The path to lifetime job security is to be remarkable.”
~ You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. ~...more
“Marketing, too many people forget, is not an end unto itself. It is simply getting customers. And by the transitive property, anything that gets customers is marketing.”
"Growth-hacking is more of a mindset than a tool kit."
tl;dr: Marketing is a slippery fish that is constantly evolving. Try to keep up, or get left behind....more
***June 2019, 1st Reread: Just as excellent as the first time around. Working on implementing many of the principles. Will probably read this again.*****June 2019, 1st Reread: Just as excellent as the first time around. Working on implementing many of the principles. Will probably read this again.***
Want to improve your story? This book is for you.
Sometime you read things when you need to hear it. As an entrepreneur, and a writer, it can be easy to get lost in the narrative. Your story can be easily convoluted and needs to be simplified for maximum effectiveness.
I will definitely read this book again. There are many actionable steps throughout that I want to revisit and work on. From simplifying your website, to establishing a simple tagline, this book has excellent advice.
Most Important Points:
- Sell the problem you solve, not the product.
- Don't be the hero, be the guide.
One of my best reads of 2019 so far.
*** Edit *** It's been a couple weeks, and I can't stop thinking about this book and recommending it to people.
Further Notes:
"What stories teach us is that people’s internal desire to resolve a frustration is a greater motivator than their desire to solve an external problem." ____________________
"As an experiment, let’s see if you can cut half the words out of your website. Can you replace some of your text with images? Can you reduce whole paragraphs into three or four bullet points? Can you summarize sentences into bite-sized soundbites? If so, make those changes soon. The rule is this: the fewer words you use, the more likely it is that people will read them."...more
Some great takeaways and excellent reminders. Each chapter succinctly summarized at the end, very quotable. Highly recommend.
1-Sentence-Summary: Atomic Habits is the definitive guide to break bad behaviors and adopt good ones in four steps, showing you how small, incremental, everyday routines compound and add up to massive, positive change over time (via Four Minute Books' excellent review).
Favorite Quotes:
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
“When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different."...more
Guaranteed to rile you up and ignite a spark of rebellion in your soul. IfSufficiently angry(-ier) after reading this book.
ESSENTIAL reading for 2019.
Guaranteed to rile you up and ignite a spark of rebellion in your soul. If you're not ready to storm the castle and take down with the patriarchy after reading this book, you're probably a man.
To be honest, this book is both inspiring and emotionally exhausting. I'm still thinking about it, and still angry.
I posted my five-star review on FB, and a "friend" (/troll) sent me a private message mocking me and calling it: "female hysteria." 🙄 This is the same guy that started an argument on my FB a couple years ago trying to mansplain to everyone that there is no wage gap, women are just inferior in the workplace because of children, lack of focus, and too many breaks. 🤦🏻♀️
This book is sure to be polarizing to people. Either you get it or you don't. In lieu of a summary, which I am sure you are already well aware of the main points, I'll leave you with a few of my favorite passages.
"On some level, if not intellectual than animal, there has always been an understanding of the power of women's anger: that as an oppressed majority in the United States, women have long had within them the potential to rise up in fury, to take over a country in which they've never really been offered their fair or representative stake. Perhaps the reason that women's anger is so broadly denigrated—treated as so ugly, so alienating, and so irrational—is because we have known all along that with it came the explosive power to upturn the very systems that have sought to contain it.
What becomes clear, when we look to the past with an eye to the future, is that the discouragement of women's anger—via silencing, erasure, and repression—stems from the correct understanding of those in power that in the fury of women lies the power to change the world."
“But I say this to all the women reading this now, and to my future self: What you are angry about now—injustice—will still exist, even if you yourself are not experiencing it, or are tempted to stop thinking about how you are experience it, and how you contribute to it. Others are still experiencing it, still mad; some of them are mad at you. Don’t forget them; don’t write off their anger. Stay made for them. Stay mad with them. They’re right to be mad, and you’re right to be mad alongside them. Being mad is correct; being mad is American; being mad can be joyful and productive and connective. Don’t ever let them talk you out of being mad again.”
“'If you wake up in the morning caring about something,' Cain told the potential future leaders of America crowding the wood-paneled room, notepads out, 'you are qualified to run for office.' The message echoes one delivered by Higher Heights co-founder Peeler-Allen to the black women she advises, many of whom lack confidence: 'Each one of you is beyond prepared to run for public office. You need to channel your inner mediocre white boy and use that to run.'”
Rebecca Traister in The Cut: The Other Women’s March on Washington What’s the fastest way to fix a broken system? Take it over, say the record number of female candidates running for office in 2018 for the first time.
"So there we were—the beneficiaries of smug humanitarianism—prisoners in paradise on earth."
After reading this book, my firsOne Word Review: Harrowing
"So there we were—the beneficiaries of smug humanitarianism—prisoners in paradise on earth."
After reading this book, my first inclination is: What right do I have to judge Masaji Ishikawa's life story? Not much as far as I can see, my opinion is irrelevant.
"I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out."
This is a raw, honest story of extreme suffering told in a unique voice—I'm not sure if it was the translation or syntax, but the tone was almost childlike in its simplicity and straightforwardness.
"You don't choose to be born. You just are. And your birth is your destiny, some say. I say the hell with that. And I should know. I was born not just once but five times. And five times I learned the same lesson. Sometimes in life, you have to grab your so-called destiny by the throat and wring its neck."
There were a couple points where the timeline seemed to contradict itself, and got a little muddled, but the big picture is clear: North Korea is one of the worst places in the world to live.
"This was laughable, of course, but that's always the way with totalitarian regimes. Language gets turned on its head. Serfdom is freedom. Repression is liberation. A police state is a democratic republic. And we were 'the masters of our destiny.' And if we begged to differ, we were dead."
I started this book on a Sunday afternoon as it happened to be on my Kindle. Several times I tried to put it down to finish later, but I couldn't stay away. Finally, I finished reading it in bed at 2am—all in one "sitting."
A quick engrossing read, this book is heavy. I can't give such a collection of traumatic events five stars, it feels wrong.* Still, this account is important and something we need to be aware of to ensure it never happens in our country.
"And I came to recognize that, no matter how difficult the reality, you mustn't let yourself be beaten. You must have a strong will. You have to summon what you know is right from your innermost depths and follow it."
*I had the same issue with Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. Both Gay and Ishikawa are brave, and admirable for their strength and ability to share the worst days of their lives—but their stories are so sad, it's hard for me to give them a full stamp of approval. Does anyone else feel similar? (And for some reason, I have no problem giving books like Helter Skelter and The Stranger Beside Me five stars ... maybe because serial killers don't induce sympathy.)...more
Nice recap and refresher on where you need to be mentally in your marketing approach.
It's hard to write about marketing consistently (as Godin doeNice recap and refresher on where you need to be mentally in your marketing approach.
It's hard to write about marketing consistently (as Godin does), especially as it is always changing and slippery enough to define in general terms as is. Initially, I felt that this book was so similar to all of Godin's other books. By the end however, he had me, and I can honestly say I enjoyed this book.
It reminded me of a mini skirt—long enough to cover the subject, and short enough to keep it interesting.
Using examples from Apple to Elon Musk, Godin discuses marketing as an elusive fish, which, when caught correctly, makes all the difference in a brand's success.
I found this book encouraging, and recommend it to anyone running a brand.
"And if you're having trouble making your contribution, realize your challenge is a story you are marketing to yourself. It is the marketing we do for ourselves, to ourselves, by ourselves, the story we tell ourselves, that can change everything. It's what's going to enable you to create value, to be missed if you were gone."...more
John Muir was an amazing, adventurous naturalist. His descriptions are extremely detailed and at times stunningly beautiful.
However, they can go on toJohn Muir was an amazing, adventurous naturalist. His descriptions are extremely detailed and at times stunningly beautiful.
However, they can go on to a point of mild tedium. I’m not a big fan of short stories, but the brief adventures were the best way to experience the most Muir.
It was also a great way to cure insomnia. This book took me forever to finish because every time I read it at night, I quickly fell asleep. Finally finished today, as I read it in the afternoon.
Would read more Muir in the future after a nice long break....more
Not quite what I was expecting, but then again, I didn't even read the synopsis.
Random stories from his life, some of them are entertaining, but afteNot quite what I was expecting, but then again, I didn't even read the synopsis.
Random stories from his life, some of them are entertaining, but after awhile, they almost seemed like mere vehicles to tout his impressiveness and brilliance—which, fine, he is brilliant, but after awhile ...
Biggest shock was how much of a womanizer he came off as, and not in a suave, debonair way either, more like he went out and tried to pick up women for sport.
Okay ...
Still, parts were actually kind of funny and I enjoyed hearing about his experience working on the Manhattan Project and his safe cracking antics. ...more
“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.”
I keep finding justifications for my (primarily) solitary life of reading a“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.”
I keep finding justifications for my (primarily) solitary life of reading and writing—as if I needed any further convincing.
“Exploration … no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward …”
The Lost City of Z vacillated between a 3 and 4 star read. At times it felt like I was slogging through text right alongside the jungle trekkers. However, the ending was satisfactory enough to make me want to give the movie a chance.
There is something inherently romantic about the idea of lost cities and pilgrimages. Don't we all feel that tug deep in our psyche? That perpetual urge to find/experience/accomplish/see/do/have the next unattainable thing, to catch the carrot that's always dangling just out of reach?
“Civilization has a relatively precarious hold upon us and there is an undoubted attraction in a life of absolute freedom once it has been tasted. The ‘call o’ the wild’ is in the blood of many of us and finds its safety valve in adventure.”
Although I'm eternally grateful to be alive now, this era of adventure and exploration must have been an exciting time to be alive....more
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