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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Barbara Kingsolver

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
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
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
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
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running

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