I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. ~ David Benioff, City of Thieves Generally speaking, I drift off to sleep shortly after my head hits the pillow. But […]
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God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work. Minnie Pearl I grew up in a household that loved country music, so I am familiar with Minnie Pearl, her hat with the price tag hanging down, and her HOW-DEE! She was always entertaining and sometimes
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I was never very picky about accepting only talented or extra-talented people. That was never my priority. It was always to discover if I saw a possibility for improvement. Those are the cases that make you feel that what you are doing is rewarding, when you see the progress the student is making because of
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For fog was merely a cloud that wasn’t too smitten with itself to visit terra firma. ~Jan Karon The most memorable fog bank I recall was also the most terrifying. My daughter and I were driving down I-55 from St. Louis to West Tennessee on a cold December day. We really should have stayed put
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Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go. ~ Anthony Bourdain We derive much of who we are from our environment, and what we eat is as much a part of that
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