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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking

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