I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But … - Barbara Kingsolver

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Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.

Barbara Kingsolver

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

Bereavement, Child, Children, Eye, Live, Love

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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

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It's what you do that makes your soul.

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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

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When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

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