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Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components, the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural ...more
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Ian Morgan Cron
“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale

Charles Frazier
“the you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.”
Charles Frazier, Varina

Charles Frazier
“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
Charles Frazier, Varina

Ian Morgan Cron
“All ministry begins at the ragged edges of our own pain,”
Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale

Fredrik Backman
“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”
Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

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