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Familiar Reflections
What is love? What does it truly mean to search for it within ourselves, in the world, and in the depths of our hearts?
In this debut reflective memoir, J. J. Laakso masterfully interweaves one man’s personal growth with timeless, familiar, yet often forgotten truths. Through a combination of poetic spiritual awakening and philosophical pondering, Laakso constructs clear definitions and thought-provoking equations to answer some of life’s most profound questions. In an increasingly disconnected world, this book illuminates our eternal search for what we truly desire, both individually and collectively, in a manner that is unparalleled.
So that we may one day love our effects
with every breath of the rest of our livesAs shapes of the infinity of our hearts
drawn with the same love that shinesAs everything we are
Sustainably happy
Together
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Who was I to question reality?
As the light fractured into its familiar colors, I questioned again.
I balanced my treaded foot on a granite surround, these words etched deep:
‘It’s not the size of the person in the fight, but the size of the fight in the person.’
This balancing act in a garden within a sanctuary became my new reality. A crossroads, a junction, a tightrope walk between the firm, enduring granite and the sodden grass of the everyday.
A sense of poetic inevitability washed over me as the words of my life – past and future – enveloped me with the comfort of bedrock and splintered light. How fitting that these words formed in prose, a passion from my youth now reignited, burning too bright to ignore. Were they my words, or those of a power greater than myself? The mystery lingers.
Is life a simple journey? Not in my experience.
This is my journey, told in prose.
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