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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
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 Hands Heart
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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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Past Real Secret
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
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
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual

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