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- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the…
- To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
- A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
- We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and…
- The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to…
- I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the…
- The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand.…
- And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds…
- And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just…
- New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place,…
- Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your…
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