- Death to Deconstruction
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- The Post Birthday World
- The Westing Game
- Open Heart, Open Home
- Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
- Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
- Seriously… I’m Kidding
- Love You Forever
- On The Day You Were Born
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Tom’s Midnight Garden
- Glass Castle
- Giraffes? Giraffes!
- Juicing the Orange: How to Turn Creativity into a Powerful Business Advantage
- Turn the page
- Take the next step
- Follow the path
- Make a leap of faith
- Sail, don’t drift
- Move into your future
- Embrace the change
- Get dressed for the new season
- Launch
- Stay inside
- Get in the pool
- Drive around in your air conditioned car and catch Pokémon
- Eat ice cream
- Complain about how hot it is
- Be that really annoying girl that says “I like it this way!”
- Bask in the sunshine on your skin
- Procrastinate on outdoor chores
- Sleep with your window cracked open anyway
- Take pictures of the temperature on your car since it doesn’t get this hot in the Midwest very often
- Except… climate change
- Discuss climate change
- Plan a beach vacation to further the sunshine experience
Swimming at Grand Cayman
- Sunshine
- Tan lines
- Wide brimmed hats
- Green grass
- The sound of a lawn mower
- Oceans, rivers, lakes, ponds
- The smell of salt water
- Sand on the floor mats
- Children laughing
- Scooters and bicycles
- Hide and Seek
- Campfires
- S’mores
- Sleeping in a tent with the rainfly open to the stars
- Road trips
- Naps
- Hot air
- Cool nights
- Pine forests
- Music playing from someone’s house
- Trailers with boats
- Long days
- Sunsets
- Hired Parachuting Elves
- Been part of a German documentary
- Hosted 20,000 people in my town for one day
- Spoken at City Council meetings
- Led bus tours for hundreds of tourists
- Received private tour of authentic Dutch windmill
- Received private tour of St. Boniface Catholic Center
- Received private tour of Clinton Historical Society Museum
- Lived in a historical mansion
- Learned how influencer marketing works
- Been able to write multiple newspaper articles
- Gone on ride-alongs with the Sherriff
- Sat in on strategic planning sessions with the city
- Been appointed by the Iowa governor to a national commission
- Saw the Peabody ducks march in
- Toured the Field of Dreams
- Greeted people from stage at a music festival
- Secured a VIP box for another music festival
- The giant windows
- The original brick walls
- The fireplace
- Open space big enough for my giant calendar
- The plants
- The sunshine
- The large window sills that serve as shelves
- The closet that is a safe
- The ability to see outside
- Not just one window but three
- Seeing everyone who walks by
- The extra storage closet
- The thermostat
- Did I mention the windows?
- He is deeply empathetic and genuinely cares about people
- He’s a super involved father
- He understands science and math and the world on a conceptual level
- He isn’t afraid to speak up for someone who needs it
- He accepts everyone exactly as they are
- He is married to his highschool sweetheart
- He always says sweet things about her when she isn’t around
- He is adventerous
- There isn’t a food he won’t try
- While visiting somewhere new, he refuses to eat at any restaurant he could go to at home
- He’s an excellent cook
- He reads to his daughters
- He loves his grandparents and communicates with them regularly
- He’s calm under pressure
- He never went through a “my parents embarrass me” phase
- On a group outing at the age of 10, he saved his sack lunch to give to the homeless man we’d passed on the way there
- He’s always been my video game buddy
- He is super creative
- His skills as a D&D DM rival those of any fiction novelist
- He is musical
- He has a freaky good ear for sounds and tones and can hear things nobody else can hear
- For example, if he hears loose change drop on the ground, he can tell you exactly how much it is
- He can fix things
- His sense of humor cracks me up
- He is kind
- He has the ability to look beyond the surface level of any given situation
- He has a broad perspective of life in general
- He loves his family with everything in him
- He memorizes random and ridiculous things
- He is the best kid ever (except for Jesus)
Unlocked
Unwound
Unlikely
Unbound
Unworried
Unrushed
Unfazed
Unhushed
Unsheathed
Unstunned
Undressed
Undone
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- Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion | Joshua S. Porter
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King
- Open Heart, Open Home: The Hospitable Way to Make Others Feel Welcome & Wanted | Karen Burton Mains
- Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story about God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables | Phil Vischer
- Unoffended |
- Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst | Robert I. Sutton
- How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them – A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide | Howard Mittelmark, Sandra Newman
- The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence | Gaven deBecker
- Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers: Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, by Anyone | William M. Easum
- Not So Big House | Sarah Susanka
- Untamed | Glennon Doyle
- Juicing the Orange: How to Turn Creativity into a Powerful Business Advantage | Pat Fallon, Fred Senn
- Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work | Paul Babiak
- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry | Jon Ronson
- I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact | Bill Sloan
- The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales | Oliver Sacks
- What is one new thing you’d like to accomplish over the next year?
- Where is somewhere you’ve never been that you would like to go?
- When you are feeling overwhelmed or sad, where is the place you would like to retreat to?
- What is the last song that made you cry?
- What is a cherished childhood memory?
- What is something you have done that was out of your comfort zone but you’re glad you did it?
- What is the last thing you tried and completely failed at?
- How many times have you been “in love”?
- What is the difference between loving someone and being in love?
- What is one thing you try to do every day?
- If you were to write a book about your life, what would this chapter be called?
- What would your favorite chapter be called?
- When was the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe, and what caused it?
- When your mind wanders, who do you think of?
- What is something you’ve done recently that you’re proud of?
- How do you know when it is enough?
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