# ambitious reading — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ambitious reading. Page: Feed: --- ## [What Is an Answered Prayer?](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/what-is-an-answered-prayer) _2025-07-19 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ I didn't even want to speak the word "cancer" out loud... ## [The end of my imagination](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/the-end-of-my-imagination) _2025-04-30 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ is where God's begins ## [A Lesson in Rest](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/a-lesson-in-rest) _2025-04-01 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ What I didn't expect from a 7-month sabbatical ## [You Can Just Talk to God](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/you-can-just-talk-to-god) _2025-03-11 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Am I getting what I asked for, or is prayer just changing me? ## [It Wasn't Christmas Without You](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/it-wasnt-christmas-without-you) _2025-02-12 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Dad was never one to risk the ice– at least when it came to fishing. ## [I Want to Raise Boys](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/i-want-to-raise-boys) _2025-02-05 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Rambunctious little boys. Boys with scraped up knees and bruised feelings... ## [Relentless Optimism](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/relentless-optimism) _2025-01-31 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ The Best is Yet to Come ## [A Prayer for a Tuesday](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/a-prayer-for-a-tuesday) _2025-01-07 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Writing became a consistent habit in my spiritual life years ago, as I began to write out the prayers I struggled to articulate. ## [Why You Should Be Jumping in Frozen Lakes](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/why-you-should-be-jumping-in-frozen) _2024-12-29 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ A spiritual experience for the peer-pressured ## [Coming Home](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/coming-home) _2024-12-19 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ A little romance in the everyday ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JMaZGGww7gW0) _2024-12-19 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [The Blue Collar Boardroom](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/the-blue-collar-boardroom) _2024-11-27 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Lessons in leadership from around the dinner table ## [The Infinite More](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/the-infinite-more) _2024-11-21 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ A life coach told me one time that my saboteur was restlessness. ## [Too Many Fish in the Sea?](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/too-many-fish-in-the-sea) _2024-11-20 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Dating Apps and The Paralysis of Choice ## [Friday Five – Michelin Star Mold, Need for Nuance, Luck & Love, Creative War and a new.shortcut](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/friday-five-michelin-star-mold-need) _2024-11-15 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Five things I'm interested in this week ## [What Meditation Taught a New Yorker About Jesus](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/what-meditation-taught-a-new-yorker) _2024-11-12 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ A mug of black coffee steaming and the sunrise peeking over the trees, I settled in for a quiet morning of reading. ## [Friday Five – Focusing a Scattered Mind, Bitcoin and Bros, Sports That Make You Live Longer, Learning to Love Meditation and Unfinished Books](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/friday-five-how-to-focus-a-scattered) _2024-11-08 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Five things I'm interested in this week ## [Friday Five – Breathtakingly Insipid Tennis Stars, Unscalable Community, New York Nostalgia (twice), An Ambitious Reading Update](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/friday-five-breathtakingly-insipid) _2024-11-01 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Five things (most of which are essays or books) I'm interested in this week ## [Independence is Overrated](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/independence-is-overrated) _2024-10-30 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ You can’t even call me a Childless Cat Lady. ## [Friday Five – Inspired by Kids, Texas Incarceration Rates, The Magic of Barton Springs, a Military Base Turned Art Installation and an Ambitious Reading List](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/friday-five-inspired-by-kids-texas) _2024-10-25 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Five things I'm interested in this week ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zINOY9Ja6opK) _2024-10-25 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Mixed Feelings on a Non-Conventional Childhood](https://aliviaduran.substack.com/p/reflections-on-a-homeschool-education) _2024-10-16 · Alivia Halva (Duran) · Growth Patterns_ Learning to love being a weird little homeschool kid