Is your uncle Joe Biden?

They are not shocked. They are upset that it failed.

We are in agreement that one important quality is the attitude of always learning which is what I alluded to with reading, investing in oneself, etc.

I think this is where defining terms is helpful. How are you defining self help? And how do you define success?

And neither do successful people watch self help success courses. They read, they apprentice, they work hard, they build, they network, they invest in themselves, they take risks.

Zeus, Mutiny, and Blixt are good

Agreed. I think this way about pretty much everything. If it is made of plastic, it seems cheap and artificial. There is a difficult to describe link between beauty and real materials.

Local farmers markets are good places to start.

The little dog detail is unexpected and somehow adds an additional layer of depth to the expulsion from the garden.

They have done it in the US for the past 50 years too. This isn't anything new domestically either.

Chronological. Did publication order on my first read through some years ago.

All the raw milk says this at a market near us.

We don't own any pets and somehow the milk mysteriously ends up in our drinks and desserts. 👀