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Read more: Her daughter’s secretsMarilyn, a character in the book Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, had left her daughter, who was only 11 months old, playing…
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Read more: Free from family?Her brother Nath was ready to leave his family and go away to college—“to start over as a new person with a new life.” It’s…
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Read more: A deep sense of satisfactionIt’s sometime in the 1970s when Marilyn’s mother dies and Marilyn finds her mother’s Betty Crocker cookbook, “spine cracking and mended, twice with Scotch tape.”…
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Read more: The sky and the mountainsWhenever I go to New Mexico, I feel a little more relaxed, much more peaceful. I think my feelings have something to do with the…
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Read more: Look around youOften, when my friend Gaynelle and I are taking our morning walk, we are so busy walking and talking that we forget to look around…
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Read more: The sky is bluerI just returned from New Mexico—where the sky is bigger and bluer. “Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life…
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Read more: Kind and tough“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be…
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Read more: A wonderful dayI have repeated this delightful quote that I found in a restaurant in New Mexico several times: “Today is a perfect day…for a perfect day.”…
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Read more: A perfect day“Today is a perfect day…for a perfect day.” I found that quote in a restaurant in Los Alamos, New Mexico. –Joy
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Read more: Finding meaningIn the forward to his new book, Bruce Feiler quotes Thomas Merton: “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life…