DharmaCurious

I think the authors name was a pseudonym, and something like Jaques, maybe? The title may have been something like Little Angels. Olympia was black, and a major caricature. She's very fat, and has a large bosom. It was a display book in a furniture store, so the cover/title/author may not be accurate, though.

I remember pulling up the Wikipedia article for the author at one point after reading it in ~09?

The little girl's friend was wealthy. Like, insanely sane. They leave and adventure, end up very bad off. Adopted by a very nice preacher and his wife, that turn out to be evil, and may have been the literal devil (which would be the only sort of fantasy aspect that I can recall), and Olympia bursts in at the moment and rescues.

That's really all I can remember. I've tried for years.

Adding this to my bookwyrm!

I love the magicians nephew. Favorite book in the series. Do you mind me asking how it changed your life?

The yoga of patanjali, is that an advaita text? I've been trying to find my fellow non dualists on lemmy, and haven't had much luck.

I do not appreciate you spying on me and posting about it. Rude.

That's not it, but looks fascinating! I read it 15 ish years ago, but if I had to guess I'd say it was early 1900s setting or before.

There's a book I read as a teenager that changed my life in that it feels like a weird fever dream, and I've never been able to find it again. I had to wait for a manager at a furniture store for half an hour, picked up a display book from a shelf and as started reading. It's about a girl who has become orphaned, goes to live with her friend (who everyone calls her sister because they have the same birthday), and then the two of them run off together, end up getting adopted by possibly the literal devil, and are rescued by the friends maid, Olympia. French book translated to English, pretty sure. Loved that book, had a pretty big impact on me, and I've searched ever since. :(

Bootlicking.

Same boat. I'm poor as fuck. I hate that I make so many decisions to buy things I know aren't the option ethically, and that applies so hard to yarn. Really anything in the textiles industry. I try not to buy animal fiber at all unless it's thrifted.

I have, in fact, gained access to your sphincter vault. I will be emailing these pictures to both of your grandfather's (and 2 excoworkers). Please send me 40 million dollars to scammy(dot)scam scam(at)notascam(dot)com.

Thank you.

Any way you could tell me/link me to somewhere to figure out how to do that? Bonus points if an idiot (me, I is the idiot) can understand it. I'm willing to pay 20 bucks a year... I just don't know how.

Those are gorgeous though. I don't have the skill to do anything like that yet. I'm mainly stuck on sleep masks and warshrags. Haha. That cabling looks amazing

I'm hoping this may also help some of the people who tend to disregard western medicine as simply an arm of big pharma. If they can see an organization like WHO reaching out to traditional medicine, it may help them accept those sorts of organizations. One of the biggest problems with people like that is that so much of what they are afraid of, and complain about, are legitimate complaints, they're just levied at the wrong groups, because they lump everything together, from their local PCP to Pfizer to the WHO. Maybe this can help a little bit.