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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · 9d

Currently reading what I’m guessing is your latest. My first dark romance, loving it!🙂

Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · 23d

Continuing my reading journey with this book from my bookshelf as I continue my world travels to Aotearoa. 🌿✈️🌏
#PeterWatt
#Papua
#ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf
#CryingInADHD
#Skybooks

Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · 23d

I finished this book yesterday. I enjoyed learning from a new perspective. I’m curious what a reading spread is? Thoughts and feelings on the book or the feels about the book?

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · 23d

Finished.💚 A brilliant book that I was thrilled to read. Although it took me longer than I would have liked - because life. I’m not disappointed to have read it. 🙂
Hmm what’s next?🤔
#BraidingSweetgrass
#RobinWallKimmerer
#ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ch. 22 Putting Down Roots 🌿
"When I was young... No one to say that it was the first plan to grow on Mother Earth and so se braid it, as if it were our mother's hair to show our loving care for her."
#BraidingSweetgrass #📚💙 #RobinWallKimmerer #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

Chapter 22 of this fantastic book. #SlowReader

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ch. 18 In the Footsteps of Nanabozho 🌿
#RobinWallKimmerer asks how we might walk as Nanabozho did - learning from the land with humility, restraint & gratitude. To be indigenous to place is to live as if Earth were teacher.
#BraidingSweetgrass #Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 21

Definitely sounds like a TBR for me!😍 Thank you for sharing.

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 19

No reading today after #volunteering at the Oppie.📚 Spotted these 3 gems in my work. A little sad to admit I’ve never read #JaneAusten or Toad of Toad Hall #A.A.Milne.
Still on track with #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf I’m going to need a new bookcase! 😉 #Booksky#CryingInADHD

A. A. MILNE
TOAD OF TOAD HALL
A play from Kenneth Grahame's book
"The Wind in the Willows'

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 18

Took a day off reading (I know, why?!) but adulting called. While enjoying Ch. 17 of #BraidingSweetgrass 🌿 I found myself ogling other readers’ book covers in curious wonder. Straight to my TBR they go—thanks for sharing! 📚💙
#Booksky #RobinWallKimmerer #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 15

"Imagination is one of our most powerful tools. What we imagine, we can become.

...if the Honourable Harvest were the law of the land today, as it was in our past."

If only and in hope. <3

#BraidingSweetgrass #RobinWallKimmerer #Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@ohhhannie?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Annie Jiao</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photography-of-red-and-black-berries-SRwbH9vyhU0?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 15

I used to watch them as a child. It was fascinating to observe. Did you also do the red and blue pen experiment with ants in school?

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ch. 16 Maple Nation 🌿

In a world of taking, maples teach generosity - giving freely of themselves. Kimmerer’s vision of citizenship rooted in reciprocity feels like hope worth holding.🫶🏻

#BraidingSweetgrass #RobinWallKimmerer #Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'll be in the city tomorrow.

My TBR pile is practically a second bookshelf, but those new releases keep whispering.

This is going to be tough! 📚😩

#Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD #BookwormProblems

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 11

"What would it be like … to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? … you begin to feel yourself awash in gifts.” — Ch14. p. 154

This invitation to gratitude is soul-shaking.
🌿
#BraidingSweetgrass #RobinWallKimmerer #Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 10

Little Women 1994
Winona Ryder will always be my favourite Jo.

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 8

Book 6/102 - also in progress
Loving #TheArtofGratitude by #MeredithGaston 🌸 I didn’t at first, it felt a bit like a workbook, but paired with Braiding Sweetgrass it’s a good combo. Together they’re grounding & heart-lifting. I am grateful.
#Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 7

Epiphany in the beans. Ch. 12 of #BraidingSweetgrass 🌿
Oh, my heart. Full of heart-songs, truths, and a spine-tingling ache for dirt under nails and deep rhythm with the Earth.
How good it is to long for something this real.
#Booksky #RobinWallKimmerer #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, ‘Plant a garden.’ … Something essential happens in a vegetable garden. It’s a place where if you can’t say ‘I love you’ out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the land will reciprocate, in beans. - Chapter 12, pages 126–127

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sounds like a beautiful day 🙂

Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 6

Bittersweet pinpricks on my heart - Ch. 10 #BraidingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer

“Sometimes being a good mother means letting go with grace.”🌿

#Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 4

When I’m not reading at home, I’m volunteering — and this is my Tuesday morning gig. 💚

Books feed the soul, and community fills the heart.

#VolunteerLife #Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today I spent it with #BraidingSweetgrass and #TheArtofGratitude a pairing for when my heart needs something both rich and gentle.🤍

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 4

🫶I'm adding it to my TBR list. Thank you!

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 3

Only a few chapters in, and already it feels soul-enriching and full of heart song and quiet wisdom for me. 🙂

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 3

Comfy at home day, reading #BraidingSweetgrass 🌿

“Mothering is like that, a net of living threads to lovingly encircle what it cannot possibly hold…”
— Ch. 9, Braiding Sweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer 💚

This line just hit something deep.
#Booksky #ReadingAllTheBooksOnMyBookshelf #CryingInADHD

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Books & Beans @shawnni.bsky.social · Aug 2

Adding this book to my “Want to Read” list. 🙂

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