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Following her instructions, I joined her in the chopping and mixing. The magical smell of pickling spices wound around us and it wasn't long before we were in another world. I was suddenly immersed in the hand-written recipes Mother resurrected from the back of the Hoosier cabinet--in the cheesecloth filled with mustard seed and pungent dill. As we followed the recipes her mother had followed and her mother before that, we talked--as the afternoon wore on I was listening to preserve the stories in my mind. 'I can remember watching my grandmother and mother rushing around this same old kitchen, putting up all kinds of vegetables--their own hand-sown, hand-picked crops--for the winter. My grandmother would tell her stories about growing up right here, on this piece of land--some were hilarious and some were tragic.' Pots still steamed on the stove, but Mother's attention seemed directed backwards as she began to speak about the past. She spoke with a slow cadence, a rhythm punctuated (or maybe inspired) by the natural symphony around us.


Leslie Goetsch


#memories #family

I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#always #appearance #been #go #how

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#feel #fingers #human #human being #i

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#being #grace #i #i think #kind

I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#athlete #close #come #demonstrates #does

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.


Tom Felton


#could #get #gizmos #i #internet

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#bottle #burning #burning desire #capable #come

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#helped #i #learned #listen #me

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#classroom #helped #i #learned #listen

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.


Jackie Joyner-Kersee


#come #day #else #field #i






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