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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Skills Vegetables
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

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