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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
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
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

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