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Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put
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In Her First Book, The Popular From The Front Porch Podcast Host And Independent Bookstore Owner Challenges The Idea That Loud Lives Are The Ones That Matter Most, Reminding Us That We DonT Have To Leave The Lives We Have In Order To Have The Lives Of Which WeVe Always Dreamed.This Paperback Edition Includes An Exclusive Letter From Annie And Two Bonus Chapters.Can Life Be An Adventure, Even When ItS Just . . . Ordinary?Annie B. Jones Always Assumed Adulthood Would Mean Adventure: A HighPowered Career; Life In A Big, Bustling City; And Travels To FarFlung Places SheD Longed To See. But Her Reality Turned Out Differently. As The Years Passed, Annie Was Still In The Same Small Town Running An Independent Bookstore The Kind Of Life Nora Ephron Dreamed.During That Time, She Hosted Friends Goodbye Parties And Mailed Parting Gifts; Wrote Recommendation Letters And Wished Former Shop Staffers Well. She Stayed In Her Small Town, Despite Her Love Of Big Cities; Stayed In Her Marriage To The Guy She Met When She Was Eighteen; And She Stayed At Her Bookstore While The World Outside Shifted Steadily Toward Digital Retailers. And She Stayed Loyal To A Faith She Sometimes DidnT Recognize.After Ten Years, Annie Realized She Might Never Leave. But Instead Of Regret, She Had An Epiphany. She Awakened To The Gifts Of A Quiet Life Spent Staying Put.In Ordinary Time, Annie Challenges The Idea That Loud Lives Matter Most. Rummaging Through Her SmallTown Existence, She Finds Hidden Gifts Of Humor And Hope From A Life Lived Quietly. Staying, Can Itself Be A Radical Act. It Takes Courage To Stay In The Places WeVe Always Called Home, Annie Argues, As She Paints A Portrait Of Possibility Far Away From Thriving Metropolises And Monica GellarInspired Apartments.WeVe Long Been Encouraged To Follow Our Dreams, To Pack Up And Move To New Places And Leave Old LivesAnd Past SelvesBehind. While There Is Beauty In These Kinds Of Adventures, Ordinary Time Helps Us See Ourselves Right Where We Are: In The Middle Of Messy, Mundane Lives, Maybe Not Too Far From Where We Grew Up. We DonT Have To Leave To Find What We YearnWe Can Choose To Stay, Celebrating And Honoring Our Ordinary Lives, Which Might Turn Out To Be Bigger And Better Than We Ever Imagined.
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