![]() Īs residents, we will not have much flexibility to control our external conditions, which will undoubtedly be governed by work. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better”. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. He applied the concept of flow to talk about work, saying the following: “There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. Csikszentmihalyi argues that engaging in flow states is an important component to one’s overall quality of life. During states of flow, people’s mental faculties are optimally engaged, leading to an experience of complete immersion in a given task in which time seems to pass more quickly. ![]() Flow is defined as a state of experience in which one’s strengths are well-matched to the challenge at hand. ![]() ![]() Csikszentmihalyi has written extensively about various topics, but the one for which he is perhaps most well-regarded is the concept of flow. At its core, rather than focusing on deficits and pathology, positive psychology seeks to explore human behavior through the lens of strengths and optimization. These are big questions, and in order to help answer them, I want to extend some thoughts from the pioneering positive psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For a price, the bizarre crew of an airship called The Wind Breaker are willing to grant her a meeting with their mysterious benefactors, and thus a chance to procure the one thing with a chance to save her mother.įree-Wrench follows Nita’s adventures in a steampunk world of airships and lunatics. Already the black sheep of the family for embracing engineering rather than art, Nita resolves to leave the safety of her home and do whatever it takes to find a cure. Nita's mother has lost her livelihood and perhaps soon her life to a terrible disease. ![]() ![]() Amanita Graus, though, is hoping that they do. ![]() Few believe the technologically advanced but socially barbarous outsiders have anything to offer. They isolated themselves from the madness of the world, choosing instead to focus on the pursuits of art and creativity. To spare themselves the same fate, the Calderans erected a battery of guns to fend off the airships of the mainland. Life has since been a struggle, with only the most ruthless and crafty able to survive. A terrible calamity in the past had blanketed much of the world with a toxic "fug." Those who survived were forced to take to the mountains and the skies in wondrous airships. The islands of Caldera are a shining jewel in a rather bleak world. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of my favorite parts of the book was Chloe’s admiration for her idol, Avery Johnson. It isn’t until the middle of the book, that the reader finally learns why Chloe and Eli have such a rocky relationship. It also included a storyline of friends to enemies to lovers, with some mystery behind it. This book included a few tropes that I absolutely love including road trips and the classic “two people…one-bed” scenario. ![]() This starts a long road trip filled with emotional and physical speed bumps that Chloe could have never expected. In order to get around this, Chloe comes up with a plan in order to get to this audition, including bringing her best friend turned enemy along with her to avoid blackmail. When Chloe learns of a summer dance intensive taught by her idol, she is thrilled. The storytelling wasn’t as immersive as I like, and that is why I am giving the book 3 stars. I really enjoyed reading Chloe’s Pierce’s journey, however, the writing was simple and repetitive, and that often pulled me out of the story. ![]() ![]() After reading, I would say it is geared more towards 11-13. The author wrote this book with 12 to 18-year-olds in mind. Purchase the book on Book Depository! (This is an affiliate link)Ĭontent Warnings: Injuring ankle, car accident, vomiting (emetophobia) ![]() ![]() ![]() The volume ends with Chateaubriand’s return to France after eight years of exile in England. He recalls playing games on the beaches of Saint-Malo, wandering in the woods near his father’s castle in Combourg, hunting with King Louis XVI at Versailles, witnessing the first heads carried on pikes through the streets of Paris, meeting with George Washington in Philadelphia, and falling hopelessly in love with a young woman named Charlotte in the small Suffolk town of Bungay. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and the first rumblings of the French Revolution. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. ![]() ![]() ![]() She tried to take a breath, and choked on the thick haze of smoke. She clung to his neck, knowing if she let go and they were separated, she'd be toast. She tripped and fell to her knees, and the next thing she knew, Logan's arms were around her and he was carrying her through the smoke. ![]() He pulled her down the trail the smoke was so thick she couldn't see farther than her elbow. ![]() “The fire will take care of her,” he said, and even as the fire threatened to overtake Maya, she shivered at the picture his words painted. Grabbing her hand, he pulled her out from beneath the tree, just before a loud crack sounded and it split in half. Seconds later he'd removed enough tape to set her free. Logan squatted at her feet, ripping at Maya's duct tape with his teeth and hands. She ran up the hill, as fast and nimble as a rabbit. He shifted his weight to look at her, and Jenny took advantage of his split-second distraction to wriggle away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isaac Bashevis Singer, Margot Zemach (Illustrator), Elizabeth Shub (Translator) 3.80 avg rating 367 ratings published 1968 12 editions. When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories. It Could Always Be Worse is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1978 Caldecott Honor Book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. ![]() In his little hut, silly calamity follows foolish catastrophe, all memorably depicted in full-color illustrations that are both funnier and lovelier than any this distinguished artist has done in the past. Chorus 3 It could always be worse And now Im sure you can see It could always be worse Glad its not happenin to me It could always be worse How much worse could it be. When the poor man was unable to stand it any longer, he ran to the Rabbi for help.As he follows the Rabbi's unlikely advice, the poor man's life goes from bad to worse, with increasingly uproarious results. Annotation: Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut.Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argued.Subject: Fables, Folklore and Fairy Tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Vurbl People: Interviews, Commentary, News, and. Make snippets of Billy talking to create audio highlights to share with your friends or embed in related blog posts. ![]() Browse for Billy Collins interviews, guest appearances, and call-ins. His career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious injuries against Luis Resto in their ten-round bout.Best Billy Collins Interviews on Podcasts or Audio about Billy Listen to audio about Billy Collins. (SeptemMarch 6, 1984) was an undefeated American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 CareerWilliam Ray Collins Jr. ![]() As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. The shocking incidents occurred in ten months between June 1983 and March. As the 40th anniversary of Billy Collins Jr vs Luis Resto approaches next year, WBN remembers the devastating events. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gibson coined the term " cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story " Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). ![]() Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans-a "combination of lowlife and high tech" -and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. ![]() ![]() ![]() She motioned to me with her head to climb up. “What was that for?” I tore the earbuds from my ears. My stupid neighbor, Luna, sat perched outside our treehouse, bouncing another pinecone in her hand and dangling her toothpick legs from a thick branch. Simple math, and a pretty good deal.Ī pinecone dropped on my head. ![]() ![]() Fred Durst might look like a ballsack in a cap, but he had a point. “Break Stuff” by Limp Bizkit was my designated ruin-shit anthem. My earbuds blocked out the sounds of birds, crickets, and crispy leaves under my feet. It had also earned me a trip to talk to this guy in a suit every week, who asked about my feelings. Whenever she glanced at my permanently busted knuckles, the waterworks started. I didn’t know what it meant, but it made Mom cry in her bathroom when she thought no one could hear. I drove a fist into the oak tree, feeling the familiar sting of a fresh wound as my knuckles split open.īleeding helped me breathe better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Creon returns with the Oracle’s prophecy, “My lord: long ago Laios was our king,/ Before you came to govern us… He was murdered and Apollo commands us now/ To take revenge upon whoever killed him.” (Sophocles 8) Thus, Creon tells Oedipus that the rain will not resume and the deadly drought will not cease to exist until Laios’s murderer is brought to justice. When Oedipus receives word of this misfortune, he sends a messenger to see the Oracle of Delphi. Crops and cattle have died and many people are starving. The city of Thebes has no happiness due to the long lasting drought. Both protagonists ultimately get what they deserve and gain new insight into their own tragic flaws. In the last line of Sophocles’s Antigone, Choragos says, “There is no happiness where there is no wisdom / No wisdom but in submission to the gods./ Big words are always punished,/ And proud men in old age learn to be wise.” Choragos’s adage powerfully captures his perception of Oedipus and Creon. ![]() |