Raymond Carver

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Pre-order HOW IT FEELS TO FIND YOURSELF A year from now, here are five things from this week that I'd like to remember: MONDAY For a limited time, my friends at BuyOlympia are giving away a free, 5”x7” limited edition print of my How To Keep Going paint palette with every pre-ordered copy of How it Feels to Find Yourself. This palette, in particular, is special to me.

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.