[b]Barbara Kingsolver
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.[/b]
Let’s just say that some pull more weight than others.
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it’s the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
It bears repeating: awareness is everything.
Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.
For example, eventually.
Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.
And a big gun was his.
The last generation’s worst fears become the next ones B-grade entertainment.
Let’s change that.
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
Let’s forget about changing that.