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Nikki Wong is on page 358 of 464 of The Four Winds: I just want Elsa to be happy. Hannah can you let her be happy!!???? PLEASE.
]]> Review7167305497 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:24:13 -0800 <![CDATA[ally added 'No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay']]> /review/show/7167305497 No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon ally gave 5 stars to No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay (Hardcover) by Julian Aguon
a collection of beautiful and deeply moving essays. i wish words came to me the way they do for julian aguon. one piece in particular made me think a lot about my best friends back home and how one of them recently made a brave decision: to leave guam.

my friend is well-loved in her community. she is wonderfully kind and unapologetically soft. she is also one of few people who simultaneously challenges me to be better yet makes me feel that i am wonderful just as i am (i thank my lucky stars for her friendship). something aguon puts forward in his work is to lean into the quiet. when you really listen, you can hear the whisper of your heart guiding you to where you should be. it seems that my friend has been able to quiet the noise in her life as she gears up to set sail towards new places. i not only feel excited for her to experience more of the world but also happy that the world will get to experience more of her.

as aguon puts it: "when we do what we love, we nourish the soul of the world." and knowing her, she will find her way back to guåhan eventually—holding everything the world has shared with her in her hands—ready to offer it all back to her island in a heartbeat. ]]> Review7167305497 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:23:50 -0800 <![CDATA[ally added 'No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay']]> /review/show/7167305497 No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon ally gave 5 stars to No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay (Hardcover) by Julian Aguon
a collection of beautiful and deeply moving essays. i wish words came to me the way they do for julian aguon. one piece in particular made me think a lot about my best friends back home and how one of them recently made a brave decision: to leave guam.

my friend is well-loved in her community. she is wonderfully kind and unapologetically soft. she is also one of few people who simultaneously challenges me to be better yet makes me feel that i am wonderful just as i am (i thank my lucky stars for her friendship). something aguon puts forward in his work is to lean into the quiet. when you really listen, you can hear the whisper of your heart guiding you to where you should be. it seems that my friend has been able to quiet the noise in her life as she gears up to set sail towards new places. i not only feel excited for her to experience more of the world but also happy that the world will get to experience more of her.

as aguon puts it: "when we do what we love, we nourish the soul of the world." and knowing her, she will find her way back to guåhan eventually—holding everything the world has shared with her in her hands—ready to offer it all back to her island in a heartbeat. ]]> ReadStatus8857467859 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:22:57 -0800 <![CDATA[ally wants to read 'Butter']]> /review/show/7169186513 Butter by Asako Yuzuki ally wants to read Butter by Asako Yuzuki
]]> ReadStatus8855011645 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:30:19 -0800 <![CDATA[ally started reading 'No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay']]> /review/show/7167305497 No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon ally started reading No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon
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