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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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

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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Kids Two
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Transition Unnoticed
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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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 Moving
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.

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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Self
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Kids
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.

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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Thing
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.

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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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President
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Moving
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards
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

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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