I walk back to the bread rolls, which have risen in the oven and filled the kitchen with the warmest smell. I’m creating a menu for hundreds of people. I feel like something has risen inside me, too, and it tastes a bit like hope.
“The Alamo, long used in a myth that demonized and gaslit Mexican-Americans and Indigenous people, might as well be a Confederate monument in the minds of conservative adherents to the Heroic Anglo Narrative.”
― Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
― Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.”
― Dog Songs
― Dog Songs
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