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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Barbara Kingsolver

There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Always Body Fenceline Stories
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

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