Kristal Stidham

“...watch an animal, and be reminded of what total integrity looks like.”
― Douglas Green

“Tufts of hair stuck out of my head in all directions, like I’d been cow-licked by a drunken heifer.”
― Allen Eskens, The Life We Bury

“Some bemoan the brutalism of socialist architecture, but was the blandness of capitalist architecture any better? One could drive for miles along a boulevard and see nothing but parking lots and the kudzu of strip malls catering to every need, from pet shops to water dispensaries to ethnic restaurants and every other imaginable category of mom-and-pop small business, each one an advertisement for the pursuit of happiness.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“If gardening has a purpose, it is to engender plenitude, a delicious human fantasy that want is banished.”
― Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd