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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Barbara Kingsolver

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single

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