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Megan C's avatar

I’m interested in the Nature of Reading book club.

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Dana Portwood's avatar

I’m sending you a DM now!

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Alicia White's avatar

I am delighted and truly grateful I found you and your Substack Dana 😍 grounding, inspiring and feeling like I'm finding my people in the midst of these horrible times. Please add me to your Nature of reading group! Nature is my daily grounding practice, along with many of the others you mentioned, and yet my Nature reading has slipped. Smiling as I recall Mary Oliver, Diane Ackerman and other old favorites. I can't wait to discover more with reading buddies!

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Dana Portwood's avatar

You are very kind, Alicia! I am going to DM you some details right now!

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Bonnie Marquez's avatar

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I would love to join Nature of reading. I need to get out of my norm.

Anxiety and depression and current grieving process. Has somewhat kept me away from people on the outside. I will admit I have enjoyed being on Substack. It has renewed my mind and encouraged my interests. So thank you. I know spend my alone time just reading on here and writing my thoughts on my posts.

Thank you 😊 enjoy your evening.

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Dana Portwood's avatar

Thank you, Bonnie. You are always welcome chime in with your thoughts here! I'm glad you are finding ways to engage again.

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Bonnie Marquez's avatar

Thank you 😊. I am thankful for you sharing all this knowledge with me.

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Deb VZ's avatar

I'm interested in the nature reading club as well!

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Dana Portwood's avatar

I will direct message you tomorrow!

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Meaghan Hoogerwerf's avatar

Hi! I’m new here and really enjoyed your post. I’m interested in the nature book club.

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Dianne Hammer's avatar

Thank you for all of these ideas! I wrote about some coping ideas to deal with morning funk in my latest post. I really find that I need to be deliberate about how I start my days right now.

….. What I’ve been concentrating on in my life is my little community and checking in with my people and starting conversations. I think the words: “I’m checking on you to make sure you are doing OK” are so valuable right now. I had two people reach out to me in a similar way this week, and I burst out crying with each; everyone is struggling, for sure.

I love your penpal idea. I love sending and receiving physical letters and save them all — especially being a but of an amateur historian— but haven’t done this recently. I think I will restart that as a little community project: Letters During a Coup.

Sending love and hope and care to everyone.

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Maggie S's avatar

I’m interested in the nature of reading book club. I also want thank you for your grounding and inspirational post… It’s just what I needed today.

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Dana Portwood's avatar

Thank you for your kind words... check your messages!

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Tara Scott's avatar

Very interested in The Nature of Reading. Just finished “How Far the Light Reaches” on your recommendation and it was somehow everything I needed.

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Jenn Jefferson's avatar

I am interested.

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Steph's avatar

Thank you for these reminders, so needed on MANY days right now. I am also in for book buddies!

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Susan Atwater's avatar

Thanks for your post. I am very interested this Nature of Reading book club. It may be just the ground I need. Things move so fast it's hard to slow down long enough to think.

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Dana Portwood's avatar

Check your messages!

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Sara Barry's avatar

Curious and possibly interested in the Nature of Reading

Also, I love letter writing DM me your address and I'll send you one ... not pressure to write back :)

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Stitch Witch Pam's avatar

I'm downloading story storygraph today. Please add me to your nature book buddy list!

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Check your messages! :)

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Tammy's avatar

Downloading storygraph as soon as I finish leaving this comment. I’m in!!

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Check your messages! :)

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Nancy's avatar

I love the idea of nature of reading!

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Messaging you now!

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Heather's avatar

Nature of Reading sounds like a wonderful idea - I don’t know if I can actually read another book club book a month plus 1 of my own choosing (I read slowly) but I’d like to try!

Also, this is yet another wonderful post, I enjoyed and soaked up every sentence and understand how you’re feeling about the world (though am definitely not an introvert).

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Messaging you now!

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