My thoughts kept straying onto random paths...hoping to get lost in a thicket.
Barbara KingsolverYou don't ask questions of an attic
Barbara KingsolverThere was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
Barbara KingsolverThe flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows
Barbara KingsolverThe seat of human emotion should be the liver," Doc Homer said. "That would be an appropriate metaphor: we don't hold love in our hearts, we hold it in our livers."
I understood exactly. Once in ER I saw a woman who'd been stabbed everywhere, most severely in the liver. It's an organ with the consistency of layer upon layer of wet Kleenex. Every attempt at repair just opens new holes that tear and bleed. You try to close the wound with fresh wounds, and you try and you try and you don't give up until there's nothing left.
Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.
Barbara KingsolverTags: environment food-security eating-locally
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
Barbara KingsolverMy future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.
Barbara KingsolverThey all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
Barbara KingsolverI've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down.
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