![]() ![]() ![]() That’s how I want to be when I’m old,” the first voice pronounced, then continued with a final jab after a pause: “Except I wouldn’t be wearing a bathing suit.” There had been some points where I would happily have followed a road if one had appeared (or better still, some secret tunnel with an escalator marked “geriatrics only”), but I wasn’t about to admit that. It was hard to stay silent at this, but again I said nothing. “Maybe there’s a flat road in here somewhere.” Should I call out? “I can hear you?” Or, “I’m not that old!” I remained silent, a gray haired woman in a teal blue swimsuit, curious to hear what I might hear about myself next.Ī second voice said, “How did she get here?” The voice was clear as a bell in the mountain air. I looked to see who belonged to the voice and to check in case there was someone on the trail behind me, someone frail, leaning on hiking poles, wearing a Tilly hat. My husband had gone back along the trail to see if there were better entry points, but I’d forged on, avoiding what looked to be a rusted piece of metal, several tree branches. ![]() ![]() I’d been promising myself that swim all morning. I was standing hip deep in an icy mountain lake, two thousand feet up from the road where my husband and I had begun two hours earlier. “Look! A geriatric!” The voice sang out from somewhere behind me in the woods. ![]()
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Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() The most difficult and exciting parts of Desiring God are discussed in relationship to service to God and to others. 24) Every blessing in our life is a gift of God to reflect His glory by taking pleasure in Him and giving Him the credit. ![]() It says that one has already made a god out of whatever he finds most pleasure in." (pg. "Christian Hedonism does not make a god out of pleasure. John Piper ties in our finding great pleasure in things like this to idolatry. which in themselves are not necessarily bad, but are to only be used to reflect God's glory. 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Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Īusten lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While I was prepping for our chat today, I found an interview with Liri and Eva of Book People, that you wanted to dive more into a lot of the stories that we see in Gleanings to do with, you know, Faraday and also about like Scythe Curie becoming the woman she is. Gleanings is a collection of stories of Scythes we’ve already met and a couple of strangers who pull back the curtain and show us more of this fantastic futuristic utopian world. A collective of humans chosen to be the hand of Death and take the lives that no longer end. All of that has been replaced with the benevolent AI Thunderhead, who takes care of the living, but for the immortal masses who still need to die, there exists the Scythedom. ![]() This interview is a personal win for me because it is with the brilliant mind behind the Arc of a Scythe series, Neal Shusterman! The original trilogy explores a world where humanity has done away with bureaucracy, corrupt government and even death. ![]() |