Thank you for reading the August 2023 issue of This Awful Awesome Life. Previous issues are available to read on our website. Go to www.thisawfulawesomelife.com and start scrolling or you can enter specific search criteria.

Next month we are celebrating libraries and taking a look at Banned Books week. Now more than ever we are seeing books banned because a very vocal minority is trying to censor what our children read in schools and what our teachers can teach.

We’re also celebrating Labor Day, back to school, and the fall season.

Lilly Kauffman, Orlando Bartro, Linda Cahill, and I will be back with interesting articles and recipes for you.

Internationally best-selling author Luke Murphy has a new book coming out at the end of this month or the beginning of September. We’ll be reviewing it and chatting with Luke for the September issue.

We’ll be continuing our reading recommendations, streaming articles, “What’s in a Word?” and “Dare to Believe.”

It’s a new year for quizzes, Q&A’s, and book reviews.

Stay safe. Stay well. You are important, and you are loved.

All my best,

Fran             

Answers to the August 2023 What’s in a Word? Quiz:

1.    A combination of the good and the beautiful in a person. Kalokagathia

2.    The feeling you get when you sit in front of a fireplace enjoying its warmth. Peikos

3.    To be overwhelmed by fatigue. Quanked

4.    The state of blissful and serene calmness. Ataraxia

5.    A vision seen in sleep; a dream. Sweven

6.    A second and happy resolution of events in a story. Eucatastrophe

7.    The need to listen to music when you are depressed. Lisztomania

8.    Early morning twilight. Camhanaich

9.    The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience when other people aren’t able to relate to it. Exulansis

10. Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; fading quickly or disappearing. Evanescent

11. A  place that feels like home. Cynefin

12. A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts, a daydream. Reverie

13.  Wandering alone. Solivagant

14. A hiding place; a place of safety or comfort. Latibule

15. A person who you think about all the time because you are so infatuated with them. Wonderwall

16. Things wanted or needed. Desiderata

17. A melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details. Ambedo

18. A lover of beauty; someone who finds and appreciates beauty in all things. Philocalist

19. A hypothetical conversation you compulsively play out in your head. Jouska

20. A chance encounter with something wonderful. Trouvaille