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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Barbara Kingsolver

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

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