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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
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
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble

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