“To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate any restraint. You could see it in the regional art and hear it in the music.… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“A friend complained that his brother-in-law had phoned and woken him up in the middle of the night. The brother-in-law said, “I like to drink a few beers every night. Do you think I’ve got a problem?” My friend said, “Well, I like to eat green beans every day, but I don’t go callin people up at midnight to ask… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share
“Maybe the ability to confer attention to another person was not simply common courtesy, but was the fundamental act of humanity. When it came… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“…an area so biologically diverse that it was designated as a world environmental treasure by the United Nations.” — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards. Old leather tack, lengths of chain, rope, and baling twine dangled from nails and rafters and draped over stall railings. Generations of pocketknives lay lost… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share
“There iddn’t no devil,” Nerve said. “Not really. At least not on the outside of us. He’s in us. Just like the Lord Himself… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“The ritzy voice offered her a salary that was three times what she’d been making on her previous job and then dictated a complicated… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“Life could be such an adventure if you could just manage to stay optimistic.” — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“This one thing, wait with me, was all Christ had asked the disciples to do for Him the night before He died, but even… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“It’s a rare type of synchronous firefly that lives in a few places around the world. Scientists from Tennessee used to travel to Asia… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“Spikenard was the essential oil that Mary Magdalene poured over Jesus’s head in the incident that set Judas off.” — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
“The entire health care system is now being organized around machines instead of human beings. Not prioritized to reduce human suffering, but rather to… — Carolyn Jourdan Copy Share Image
