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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
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
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
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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Change Forgiveness Moving
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
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
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
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 Mouth Scent
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
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
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
… 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
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water

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