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First, I salute you on your mission! It's an old book now, but I really liked Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project when it came out; not that you even said you wanted book recs (here, I am, just jumping in anyways, like a total Kuppet!) LOL! All to say, "You got this! I'm excited for you!"

ALSO, I love, love, love art thrift stores! :) There's an amazing one a few neighborhoods over from us and I'm always having to remind myself that I should TAKE stuff there, not buy more. Ah, well. :) Grist for the artistic mill--and such a low-stakes way to try out new things!

I also love your thoughts on translations! I think translations are fascinating, too. I loved reading this article about the translation challenges that crept up when they sold the foreign rights for Carson Ellis's Du Iz Tak? https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/73993-working-out-the-bugs-adventures-in-translating-carson-ellis-s-du-iz-tak.html

THOUGH--don't worry about reading anything! Only if you want to, OF COURSE!! Hugs, Captain Falatko!

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I think I have The Happiness Project somewhere in my house. It's probably telling that I started reading it (years ago) and then was like, "oh, nope nope nope, can't think about my own happiness, how would that even work????" and abandoned it after 20 pages. I think it's under my bed? Oof, It's probably been giving me dreams.

I'm so jealous you have an art thrift store near you! I WANT TO GO!

THANK YOU for linking to that article about translating Du Iz Tak?! Of course my first thought was, "why do they have to translate it at all?" but the article answered that. SO INTERESTING!

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It would be super fun to go art thrifting with you! :) I 100 percent know you live in Maine, and *still* every time you mention Portland I think, "IS JULIE IN PORTLAND (OREGON)?" And then (every time) I'm like, Portland, Maine--doy! Sometime, ma'am--I don't know when, I don't know how, but someday we'll thrift and then fika (or at least, take a Cel-Ray break)! :) (And then vintage-book shop!) #idealday #sighswistfully

That article was so strangely fascinating! When I read it, I bookmarked it--and no offense to PW, but that doesn't typically happen with industry stuff. 😂 Not PW's fault, it's just there is so much, quantity-wise, the threshold for re-reading those articles is...very high.

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SOME DAY! I have the "wait, MY Portland?" whenever anyone talks about some fun thing they are doing in Portland. And then they say an address that doesn't exist here, and I figure it out.

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