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Things Become Other Things
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Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod is billed as “a walking memoir” and captures a solo hike through parts of the Kumano Kodō trail in Japan. It’s a reflective book, weaving personal stories through meditative steps. I dog-eared more pages of this book more than any in memory. (In hindsight, folding a corner of paper is the worst way to save passages.) My first fold contained an introduction to the concept of Yoyū and finding difficult forgiveness on the road: The moment I felt that was like getting hit in the head with a basketball—a freakish pang, a dull ache in the skull. I almost fell into a bush. I was hyperventilating—realizing my heart had expanded in some immeasurable, beyond-physics way that hearts can expand, and in that expansion I had a new space. There’s a word in Japanese that sums up this feeling better than anything in English: yoyū. A word that somehow means: the excess provided when surrounded by a generous abundance. It can be applied to hearts, wallets, Sunday afternoons, and more. From there I just kept folding more and more pages. In fact, now I feel like reading it all over again — maybe this time with a highlighter or a notebook.
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The Wedding People
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If you like dark humor and coming of age stories with 40 year olds, this book will likely resonate! “…becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it.”
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