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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Barbara Kingsolver

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

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