Member: KarenHorvath

If you didn't receive the book, just click "Whoops, I didn't really receive this book." on the Books you've won page. If you didn't get it, it doesn't count against you!

http://www.librarything.com/er_winnings....

Best,
Abby

posted by ablachly at 10:11 am (EST) on Jul 29, 2009

Virginia Satir

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

posted by theoldman at 10:07 am (EST) on Feb 15, 2009

That would have been a wonderful additon to the story. Have you read "The Other Side of the Bridge" by Mary Lawson? There's something like that going on there, and even though I told you, it won't spoil the book at all.

posted by LynnB at 8:08 am (EST) on Nov 29, 2008

I will post it reserved for you tonight.

posted by jhedlund at 6:39 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2008

You've got yourself a deal. I'll take the arc of The Fiction Class, and I'd love to get the Hello Kitty magnet from your Etsy site for my daughter as a stocking stuffer. What's your bookmooch handle? I'm jhedlund. Once you give me yours, I'll post Twilight and reserve it for you.

Thanks!

posted by jhedlund at 9:06 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2008