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#5JoysFriday!

🌹A perfect bloom in the rose garden at church
🤗 Every person in my Education for Ministry group!
👶🏼 A FB memory of the year my roommate‘s boyfriend made a baby Jesus-shaped cake for our Christmas party 😂
🎄📚Reading by the Christmas tree
🎶🎷My husband‘s big band Christmas concert last night

Fascinating history of the Korean alphabet as a gift and tool of resistance. "When the heavens nourish the earth, they do not distinguish between the great and small..." King Sejong

Cross-cultural fiction at its finest: a kid's chapter book about a young Korean girl who discovers Astrid Lindgren's books. They help her make sense of her life (her father is dead; her mother is sad, poor and has a short fuse), work through her emotions and relate to others. Maybe a bit too edifying for me, but I'm sure the child who connects with this book won't mind. I liked the sense of place and season.
#Korea

I‘m late to this one but here I go.

“As if trying her best to mend a broken friendship from her childhood, she immersed herself into the books, day and night, never leaving their side.”

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
“An old woman sits on the beach, a cushion strapped to her bottom, sorting algae that‘s washed ashore.”