but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short…” -unknown

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It’s so true!!!

before he dies;

the man who never reads

lives only one.”

-George RR Martin

Is it lame that I’m often totally inspired by quotes I find on Pinterest?!?  I read this one a few months ago and it really got me thinking… who doesn’t want to live a thousand lives?  My issue with reading is that, well… I don’t really like to read.  Ha!  I can read, mind you… I just don’t seem to stay focused for very long when I’m turning actual pages.  Audiobooks are my thing… I love them because I can take in the stories while I’m driving, editing, watching my kids at the pool, lying in bed, whenever!

Last week I decided to see what the library had in terms of audiobooks, and I was SO EXCITED to see there were thousands of them there!!!  Yay!  It was tough to pick… the Nicholas Sparks books were calling my name, but (secretly wanting to impress my husband with my amazingly cultured self) I checked out Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton instead.  Jonathan’s constantly reading classic books, and I’m always sitting by him surfing my iPad wishing I was awesome like that… it’s hard to compete with a guy that reads Tolstoy and presidential biographies for fun, you know?!?

Well let me just tell you… this is an AMAZING story!!!  Who knew?!?  It’s about South Africa in the 1940′s… and I’m currently living one of  my “thousand lives” by following a black South African pastor through the broken city of Johannesburg to find his wayward son.  It’s full of heartache and grace and hope… I’m almost done with it, after which I just may go back and find another classic book to read.  Maybe a Nicholas Sparks book in between, though. He he… not every one of my thousand lives needs to be cultured, does it? : )

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A post isn’t a post without a picture, is it?  Ok… here’s one to make you smile!

(makes me smile, at least!)

: )

It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.

No matter what.

: )