. . . Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When … - Barbara Kingsolver

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I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

Barbara Kingsolver

. . . Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.

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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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