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.
From Barbara Kingsolver
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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