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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
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

Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

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