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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something 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
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
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
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

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