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

Barbara Kingsolver

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Moving

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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Real
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
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
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen
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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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
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Way
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Mindfulness
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Inspiring Mothers Day
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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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 Scent
He needs to go rub his soul against life.

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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Rub
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Salad
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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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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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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Losing
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Moving

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

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