A Gathering of Spirits

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"Add-On" Stories & The Stories We Choose

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“The significance—and ultimately the quality—of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part.” —Wendell Berry

My daughter, Amelia, was a very precocious little girl and an exuberant early talker. By exuberant I mean, non-stop-run-on-stunningly-astute-commentary-in-surprisingl…

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