animal dreams
just finished barbara kingsolver's animal dreams.another fantastic book. not as completely absorbing as poisonwood bible -- but that might be my frame of mind more than anything else. animal dreams was just what i want writing to be -- well-written, compelling, great characterization, with insight into history. it managed to provide inspiration and a view into how our daily lives can inspire social change. sigh.

from animal dreams:
"people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. ... It's what you do what makes your soul, not the other way around."

"if you remember something, then it's true,... In the long run, that's what you've got."

"the very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. ... Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides. I can't tell you how good it feels. I wish you'd stop beating yourself up for being selfish, and really be selfish,..." "...but it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time."
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( ((meanwhile)) )
in my regularly scheduled life, we had to put a dog down last night, and one of the shelter dogs is being vilified for her side in a dog scuffle with two other known dog-aggressive dogs. but the other two dogs belong to a vet, and our shelter dogs are quite literally nobody's children. even with animals, human politics prevail. feh.
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and more from animal dreams:
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."

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