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.
“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
“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
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