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There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

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No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as councilsof ghosts. It is not "human ...more

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She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

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As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the la...more

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Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "L...more

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How joyful to be together, aloneas when we first were joinedin our little house by the riverlong ago, except that now we knoweach other, as we did not...more

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And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but som...more

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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it a...more

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I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a li...more

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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that poss...more

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This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it wo...more

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History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has g...more

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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the ex...more

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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a des...more

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If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prid...more