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Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and regrets of her life.
“Vincent Van Gogh wrote: 'I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“I supposed there is this one part of it, which is, Gilbert has never left me, and the circumstances of his death have never for one day diminished, and as I age it feels so strange that the majority of people with whom I come in contact don't have the slightest inkling that he ever lived.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“I have found it to be absolutely astounding, all the trouble living has turned out to be. Things nobody ever warned me about.”
― The Correspondent
― The Correspondent
“You never get over death. Not if you're someone who loves.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“They’re not, Dad. Kids aren’t resilient. That’s something adults like to say to make themselves feel better. To pretend that kids don’t feel as deeply as adults do. But kids are everything that happens to them. They’re sponges. Everything bad, everything good. Every hurtful thing you say. Every loving one.”
― The Road to Tender Hearts
― The Road to Tender Hearts
Fonville Winans, Photographer
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For fans of the photographer Fonville Winans. Winans famously photographed Louisiana's Depression-era Cajuns, and in doing so documented a hardscrabbl ...more
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