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#LilithJuly | 30: #WhiteFlag

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#LilithJuly This song always makes me think about The Titanic 🚢⚓️🌊 🎶I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no #whiteFlag above my door I'm in love and always will be 🎶

#LilithJuly #WhiteFlag

“The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

#LilithJuly
White chrysanthemums symbolize loyalty & devoted love & in Korea they are a symbol of grief & mourning so I think they are like a #WhiteFlag of sorts & fit todays song pick. This book is a tough but beautifully written story of two Korean sisters separated by war when one is taken away by a Japanese soldier as a ‘comfort woman‘ while the younger one is left behind with survivor‘s guilt, wondering what happened to her sister.

No book recommendation today.

🎵 I will go down with this ship 🎵 my parents will have been married for 30 years next Monday!

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#LilithJuly

(Day 30 - #WhiteFlag)

*I‘m such a kid. When I see a white flag, it makes me think of “running underwear up the flagpole,” which used to be a joke back when my dad was in school (the year would be 1950—I don‘t know if anybody knows the joke nowadays). Then that reminded me of the Captain Underpants books by Dav Pilkey, which are set in Piqua, Ohio. I probably don‘t need to say anymore—I‘m pretty sure you guys think I‘m nuts by now.

Okay it‘s not a #WhiteFlag, but best I‘ve got in my library. In fact the only flag in my library! 😂
#LilithJuly

I read this book in college, and it is amazing! It‘s heartbreaking, but the spirit of those who are fighting for their rights is uplifting. Slaves in the French occupied Haiti want to be free and start to rebel. This is a novel, but the info in here is so good, it‘s a great companion piece to nonfiction accounts on the rebellion in the 1790s. The slaves refuse to wave a #WhiteFlag . #LilithJuly

I hadn‘t heard of this book until I was googling for today‘s #LilithJuly prompt, but it looks interesting.

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