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Happiness hit her like a train on a track

My name is Geenie, pleased to meet you.

SF Bay Area grown, I now dabble in the northwest. I enjoy photography, picking apart news articles, writing, baking/making food for friends, dachshunds, gerber daisies and rain. I am also in a constant and changing relationship with God. Get me talking about Ben Folds or Five Iron Frenzy and I won't shut up. Background picture is mine by the way...in case you were curious.

Life is messy, cruel and fast so have as much fun as you can and make every single moment count.

I love making new friends, so say hi :)

I also run a Dachshund blog.

"The Great Gatsby was last updated in 1924. You don’t need it to be refreshed, do you? Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it still says the same thing - that’s reassuring. Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough."

—Jonathan Frazen in defense of the printed book — “Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society.” (via oliveryeh)

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