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Best of Books welcomes back former University of Oklahoma Women's Basketball Coach and Author, Sherri Coale at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, for the release of her second book, "The Compost File". Sherri will speak with readers about her new book before signing. To meet Sherri and enter the signing line, please purchase your copy of "The Compost File" below. You may also purchase "Rooted to Rise" to have both books signed! Books will also be able to purchase at the event if not ordered in advance, however your preorder means we won't run out before your turn!
https://bestofbooksok.com/SherriCoaleTheCompostFile
Calling All Strivers
I’m a trier. If you peeled away the flesh and dug inside my bones, you’d find a never-resting, fluttering chaotic mess of WANT-TOs, HAVE-TOs, and NEED-TOs balled up around themselves. For all the things I’m not (and there are many), and all the things I am (though there are several that I wish I weren’t), this one thing they could carve upon my tombstone: “A striver is resting here.” It would be, at once, both gloriously and painfully true.
Give me a goal... a number to hit... a bar to touch... a line to cross... and I get happy. Stupid, crazy, blood-bolting-through-my-veins happy. Reaching is my modus operandi. And I must admit, the inborn inclination has served me beyond well.
Except...
Sometimes the ever-upward-onward mindset can get in the way. Like a dog that always needs to go outside to pee, the urging pesters. And the precious present pays the price. (Note to self -- strive to keep the striving gene in check.)
For years I’ve kept a file on my laptop titled “Compost.” In there, I toss random thoughts and ideas I want to dig into when time and space allow. Sometimes what goes in there is a sentence. Sometimes it’s a paragraph. Sometimes it’s a question that simply will not leave me alone. The file has become, over time, a pile of stuff that helps me grow.
If it feeds me, I imagined it might also be a source of nutrition for somebody else. So, I began turning the pieces and parts from the file into thoughtfully organized (a squiggly mouthed emoji belongs here) blogs. And now I’ve raked a bunch of the blogs together to form a thoughtfully organized (TWO squiggly mouthed emojis) book. A collection of stories about human nature... the terrain we navigate... the people we walk and crawl and run and jump with... the moments that make us wiggle, wonder and weep. A heap of “hmmmmms” that help us triers toe the striving line.
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