[Sylvain] told us that in India it's sometimes considered a purification ritual to go home and spend a year eating everything from one place--ideally, even to grow it yourself. I liked this name for w...
[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merel...
Always tried to be positive with her, although I’d learned
Colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant cu...
Here where we pay soothsayers and acrobats to help lose our weight,
Is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
Might call it a great passion. When the true name of what we’re dealing with is greed, or lust. We all have the special talent of believing in a falsehood, and believing it devoutly, when we want it t...
Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He
Recreational envy was
Shambles in her sternum.
Times than we ever have known.
Was after they discovered the world was round. I’m not scared of big words. I didn’t say you were. You did, too! ‘I realize you’re no scientist, Miss Rawley,
We went on record as half-bad musicians having wholehearted lives.
On asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
Because it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. Pay attention to your dreams: when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home y...
Everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.
Nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
Our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
Penitence is more attainable than permission.
The blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living.
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