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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
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
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today

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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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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