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“Hospitality was not a voluntary action that a person extended to friends and colleagues. It was a society-wide obligation that every household was duty bound to extend to strangers, foreigners, travelers, and sojourners. Because the societal weave was based on familial relationships, the societal welfare demanded that households offer temporary shelter and food to anyone who was brought by life circumstance into a household's territory at the end of a day.”
Ralf A. Jacobson / Michael J. Chan

“Why do you have these parties? To honor the seasons, to honor each other, to gather, to remember that we are part of something bigger than the petty things of today.”
Patty Callahan Henry

Viola Shipman
“I used to sit here on the stoop as a kid and listen to the wind in the trees. It was only a few years ago that I realized this is the one place where it wasn't the wind that I was hearing, it was the trees. The wind was merely the conductor, but the trees were the symphony.”
Viola Shipman, Famous in a Small Town

Amanda Flower
“Aren't we all descendants of foreigners at this table? Emily asked. Not a single one of us is an Indian, correct?”
Amanda Flower, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

Amanda Flower
“Flowers on the wall remind me spring will come even in the deepest trench of winter. Flowers are hope, you see.”
Amanda Flower, Because I Could Not Stop for Death

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