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Monica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Monica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Microfiction: Idea about “Angel Sentries” and “Chokepoints”
I had to take this piece out of my story WAHNT set in the Visayas, but here is that cut-out piece as background information.
The story as a whole is inspired by the trip to the Visayas State University our family took in September 2025.
Here’s the mix of agricultural and technology that I was thinking.
Imagine one of those spiky drones hanging at every entryway. Here is the spiky drone shape in the
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
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“If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that. If you are not on the right path, you will experience roadblocks all along the way, and this is also the Universe telling you to stop, look, and ask if this is where you are supposed to be.”
― Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
― Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
“A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon.
Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”
A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.
Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.”
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Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”
A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.
Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.”
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