Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn’t her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?
She found the company that made her favorite architectural model trees. They weren’t the most realistic, they weren’t even well made. She didn’t like them because they evoked trees but because they evoked the sadness that trees evoke.
I beseech you to forgive us, and to make us better than we are. Make us good.
I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises.
He wrestled because he recognized that the blessings were worth the struggle. He knew that you only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
We have let the factory farm replace farming for the same reasons our cultures have relegated minorities to being second-class members of society and kept women under the power of men. We treat animals as we do because we want to and can.
We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.
Inceputul lumii vine adesea.
Mencils?” “Pencils for men.
Every morning, she’d clean me of my excrement, bathe me, dress me, and see that my hair was combed like a sane man’s, even when it meant an elbow to the nose or a broken rib. She polished the blade. She wore my teeth marks on her body like other wives might wear jewelry. The hole didn’t’ matter. We paid it no attention. We shared a room. She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
But I loved them. I loved the truth they conveyed: that kids aren’t yet able to fake it. Or they aren’t yet able to conceal their disingenuousness. They’re wonderful smilers, the best; but they’re the very worst fake smilers. The inability to fake a smile defines childhood.
Life is upsetting,” Irv said. “Like blood is wet.
I don’t speak,” he wrote, “I’m sorry.
Not making a decision – eating “like everyone else” – is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic. Without question, in most places and in most times, to decide one’s diet by not deciding – to eat like everyone else – was probably a fine idea.
One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.
Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. For some, that irrationality leads to a kind of resignation. Food.
He leaned down and whispered, ‘Haunted.’ I whispered back, ‘I don’t believe in the paranormal.’ He said, ‘Ghosts don’t care if you believe in them’.
The Thanksgiving turkey is the flesh of competing instincts – of remembering and forgetting.
Mark had said it wasn’t too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia’s life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was continually expanding, but it was no longer clear what they were talking about.
No, no. Absolutely not. We had a talk with the rabbi, and now we’re fully in salvage-the-bar-mitzvah mode.” “You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plagues and Uzis. Talk gets you a good place in line for a shower that isn’t a shower.