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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus 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
…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
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
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

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

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