“Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.” GivingMadeTwoFactsStoriesRememberThreeBeliefSocialCommunityDifferencesFictionStepsGenerationsIdentityRootsLocalsPurityFabricWholenessThree Generations Book:Sweetness in the Belly Source: Sweetness in the Belly
“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.” MadeSaidEndsFeelingsEarthEasyDarkSunMysteryGrewBalanceShadowRootsSightRoseMade ItSlipsVisionaries Author:Robin McKinley
“Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.” HumansMadeEarthRememberRootsCreatorHumbleDustMakers Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art