Okay

I bought a book a few months that was indirectly recommended to me. Meaning, I just kept hearing about it, from a wide host of people. The book is Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist Let me just say this book is amazing! Its about "celebrating the extraordinary nature of everyday life." Shauna is a gifted writer and her comedic tales of adventure really grab a hold of your heart; revealing truth. One chapter that especially made me think is called 'good causes.' I can't really explain it well, but the gist is about us as a race claiming to always be "okay!" And that this is just not true, heres a passage that really got me:


"Being with Julie and Doug today made me think about the idea that everything is okay. That idea is nothing but cruel in its untruth. Okayness is a thin scab that rips off every once in a while and exposes a river of blood and infection, an inroad to the whole body. We live in reasonable peace, accomplishing things and doing what we're told, and expecting that if we behave, we will be rewarded; that for living quietly and industriously , for donating to Easter Seals and letting people merge in front of us on the highway, we will be given good things, good lives. And then something happens to us; we get that phone call or that feeling or that doctor's report, and everything changes."


I highly recommend this purchase.



*peace