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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.

Barbara Kingsolver

I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
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
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
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
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
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
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.

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