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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Eye Looks
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
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
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

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