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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Barbara Kingsolver

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
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
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
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
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
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

Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

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