Feeding

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There’s hunger beyond food that’s expressed in food, and that’s why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Being Happy

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I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
The only ones among you who will be really happy
Are those ones who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Food

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Food is a cultural product; it cannot be produced by technology alone … a healthy culture is a communal order of memory, insight, value, work, conviviality, reverence, aspiration. … It clarifies our inescapable bonds to the earth and to each other.

Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America