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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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 Memories Men
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
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
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 had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
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

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