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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once

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