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    • Comic book artists and writers

      Posted by Rexy on 4 January 2023

      It’s got to have good art… Great writers…

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    • Understanding is love’s other name

      If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.

      To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. To know how to love someone, we have to understand them. To understand, we need to listen.

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      When you love someone, you should have the capacity to bring relief and help him to suffer less. This is an art. If you don’t understand the roots of his suffering, you can’t help, just as a doctor can’t help heal your illness if she doesn’t know the cause. You need to understand the cause of your loved one’s suffering in order to help bring relief.

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      The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand. They are two sides of one reality. The mind of love and the mind of understanding are the same.

      Thich Nhat Hanh – How to Love

    • Book: Greenlights

      Posted by Rexy on 4 April 2021

      I will let you know what I think……don’t judge a book by it’s cover, McConaughey has something here…..

      Mental Notes
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    • The Good Children’s Book List

      Posted by Rexy on 25 June 2017

      One dad’s list of Children’s books that he loves reading to his kids. Beautifully illustrated and cleverly written. Thank you Reading Rainbow. https://www.pinterest.com/therexfiles/the-good-childrens-book-list/

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    • An Awesome Book of Love

      Posted by Rexy on 29 January 2016

      An Awesome Book of Love by Dallas Clayton I read this book to the boys this morning. I didn’t want it to end….so good!

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    • Book: To Nepal with Love

      Posted by Rexy on 15 August 20155 August 2024

      I completely forgot my journals were published in this book. To Nepal With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur Paperback – Oct 1 2013by Kim Fay (Editor), Cristi Hegranes (Editor), Kraig Lieb (Photographer) From …

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    • Book: There’s A Barnyard in My Bedroom

      Posted by Rexy on 13 August 2015

      I started reading this book with Arlo and I thought, wow, these are really great stories about learning about the things around us and where they came from. I looked at the author name and …

      Fatherhood
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    • The importance of solitude

      Posted by Rexy on 17 September 2014

      Michael Harris explains it well in a his new book “The End of Absence”. We need solitude to spark creativity and innovation. Sometimes being “too connected” is a mental barrier or a road block to …

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    • You definitely can’t go back

      Posted by Rexy on 1 August 2014

      Once you taste how real and flavourful good food really is, you can’t go back to eating crap and you will be willing to pay just a little more to get it next time. The …

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    • Who’s in the Forest?

      Posted by Rexy on 18 July 2014

      Our first Barefoot Book and certainly not our last. We have been huge fans of their children’s videos. We bought this book from Barefoot Book Ambassador Tiffany at Car-Free day in Vancouver.

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