Why am I passionate about this?
As a 34-year-old memoirist, one of the most frequent questions I get about my genre, delivered with both curiosity and disdain, is: âWhy?â After all, why? What could I, the life experience and literary equivalent of a pollywog, have to share about my journeyâor, gasp, what Iâve LEARNED? The fun thing is, as someone who once broke my parentsâ computer by using dial-up internet to download Napster, Iâm used to disappointing people. Even more fun: as a millennial memoirist, I donât believe in writing books that will tell people what Iâve learned. I hope my writing shows, through both merit and content, that I have indeed learned something.
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Why did Jenna love this book?
Iâm sorry, but can we finally remove Frankenstein from every undergraduate Literature 101 course and demand instead that our brightest young minds read THIS? My college boyfriendâs mother gifted it (prescient) during my sophomore year, and I read it on repeat during that whole relationship⊠and through every major challenge that came after.
I have a particular appreciation for Chödrön, and any Tibetan Buddhist nun for that matter, who can, in one breath, extend the most heartfelt, accessible nugget for finding peace AND relay the experience of throwing a flower pot at her ex-husband's head. Namaste.
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Pema Choedroen teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it - ironically, while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering.
This accessible guide to compassionate living shows us how we can use painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion and courage, ways of communication that lead to openness and true intimacy with others, practices for reversing our negative habitual patterns, methods for working with chaotic situations and ways to cultivateâŠ