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Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.

Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.

"Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts"

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.

We are desperately in need of a collective vision of what it means to love our homes.

President Carter showed what was possible when people came together for a cause and acted out of decency.

That which we most value is often that which most frequently slips into dull repetition.

One might think that after forty-four years of writing these Sabbath poems, Berry would run out of things to say. But it seems that as long as the trees continue their silent conversion of light to soil, as long as the sun and the moon endure, as long as he has life and breath, Berry will continue his acts of Sabbath praise.

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.

Whenever we see such an avoidance of questions like these, we are witnessing someone protecting an ideological dream world.