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TED Talks to end the Year on a high note

Brain Magic by Keith Barry

The brain changing benefits of exercise by Wendy Suzuki

Power foods for the brain by Neal Barnard

Intermittent fasting: Transformational Technique by Cynthia Thurlow

You don't find happiness, you create it by Katarina Bloom

The Art of being yourself by Caroline McHugh

The magic of not caring by Sarah Knight

How to not take things personally by Frederik Imbo

Speaking Up Without Freaking Out by Matt Abrahams

How to motivate yourself to change your behavior by Tali Sharot

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just thinking about how pretty biology is- how pretty life is. it's the idea that your body knows. it's how the mRNA can so perfectly navigate itself to the ribosome. it's how your body makes memory cells so you can recover quicker the next time. it's how your body can detect even the tiniest of changes. it's how your body has blood running from your lungs to your feet as you're reading this and you arent even aware of it, how your muscles are contracting and relaxing, how your cells are making proteins, breaking down carbs and don't even realize. it's so comforting to know that each organ of your body, each tissue in the organ, each cell, each organelle-none of it is useless. it exists for a reason. it has a purpose. it's doing so much to give us life. no one will ever care for you as much as your body. and there's nothing more comforting than that.

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With November here, here are bi books out in November!

Let me know if I missed any bi books out in November. Books listed: The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin The Santa Pageant by Lillian Barry I'm A Princess That Ran Away To A Magical World by Terry Bartley Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black Abbott: 1979 by Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivela (Artist) Outdrawn by Deanna Grey Violet Moon by Mel E. Lemon Hummingbird: Part Two by Frances M. Thompson Vicarious by Chloe Spencer Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. Adams A Power Unbound by Freya Marske @freyamarske Until the Blood Runs Dry by MC Johnson Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat Ride with Me by Jenna Jarvis We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull Allure by CEON Delay of Game by Ari Baran Hunt on Dark Waters by Katee Robert One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny To Kill a Shadow by Katherine Quinn Come Out, Come Out by Alexia Onyx 💖Make sure to check TWs for all books if necessary. 💖Preorders help the authors greatly, so make sure to preorder any book(s) that catch your interest. 💖Here is the goodreads list of these books

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“We are human in good part because of the way we affiliate with other organisms. They are the matrix in which the human mind originated and is permanently rooted, and they offer the challenge and freedom innately sought. To the extent that each person can feel like a naturalist, the old excitement of the untrammeled world will be regained.”

—E.O. Wilson

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Why, yes, I did order this.

I’m sure everyone will be as excited as I am once I get my hands on it.

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I haven’t finished “The Fall” by Camus yet but I really wanted to start “Second Place” by Rachel Cusk.

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Morning in the park, New York City, October 2023.

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“It was November — the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”

- Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Montgomery

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Books I Want Adapted By Mike Flanagan

*Note: I haven’t seen all of his work and I’m more of a mystery/crime fiction reader than horror*

Something Wicked This Way Comes: 

I think this is probably the most expected considering it is THE Halloween story that people suggest. It is about two friends' experiences with a dark traveling carnival that preys on people’s desires right before Halloween. Ray Bradbury has written plenty of horror short stories as well that would supplement this as Flanagan sometimes incorporates those into his adaptations. 

Death of the Living Dead:

Translated from Japanese, beware the English print is very tiny. This is a story of a funeral director family living in New England in the 80s. The Barleycorns are a troubled family but what could be more troubling for funeral directors than an epidemic of the dead coming back to life?  Murder, but why murder when the dead come back to life? It is a murder mystery that plays with the classical conventions of a mystery novel. 

The Woman in White:

A ‘sensation novel’ written 1859. After a mysterious encounter with a woman in white Hartright, an art teacher, and his students find themselves absorbed in a tale of intrigue, suspense, crime, and more. The story is told from multiple perspectives which was inspired by how a crime is described by multiple witnesses in court. I think a lot of Collins’ novels could be adapted or they could be used for inspiration like I said with Bradbury. 

Another:

Another (ha) book translated from Japanese. It has an anime and film adaptation as well but I haven’t watched either. Koichi transfers to a new middle school but after realizing everyone is on edge and ignoring a girl who looks like a doll he figures out he is in a cursed class and a chain of horrific deaths follow. He tries to get to the bottom of it all and stop the gruesome deaths. There are three novels in this series but I only have the first one, I want the other two. 

Wylding Hall:

Members of an “acid-folk band” meet up at an old mansion in the country to record their music. They make their album but their lead singer goes missing in the building and is never seen again. Years later, the band reconnects with a young documentarian to tell their stories of what happened that summer.

And Then There Were None:

It doesn’t necessarily have to be And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie but any of the numerous mystery novels inspired by it. An island or secluded area where a group of people are staying with no contact to the outside ( A closed circle/community mystery ) and the people are dying off one by one as they try to figure out who the culprit is.

*I kept the descriptions short intentionally for convenience, so if you want to know more look them up, comment, or message me. I’m not going to promise to answer but I will try. If there are a lot of questions about one title I’ll probably just do a big singular review post of that title.*

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I am mentally here, as I am physically. My terrible thoughts do not define me. My terrible intentions do not define me. I am deserving of the love that is bound to come to me. My heart is still well-intentioned, I am still well-intentioned. My brain does not reign control over me. I am free, I am calm, I am happy.

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Shenandoah

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Crystallized Amber

(c) riverwindphotography, October 2023

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Autumn Reads 🍂💜

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Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

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@lovesdaya

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i don't pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.

― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

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Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner/Jaun beaur

Almost, Almost, almo...

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Arancia by Keira Santoso

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“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things — they save you.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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Love humiliates you.

"Sweetheart, love is humiliating. Hasn't anyone ever told you that?"

"Who would have told me that?"

"Do you know the word humiliate comes from the Latin root humus, which means 'earth'? That's how love is supposed to feel."

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love is so embarrassing. also the only thing that matters

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A try to sketch someones photoshoot on paper

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 Lovely Reflection and autumn colors!