#icu

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#difficulties #grief #hardships #holding-hands #life

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (...) ↗

— Tracie McMillan

#food #systemic-devaluation-of-labour #food

Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the values with which it is popularly associated: conservation, independence, self-reliance, family, and community. To sustain itself, commercial agriculture will have to reorganize its social and economic structure as well as its technological base and production methods in a way that reinforces these values. ↗

— Marty Strange

#community #farming #family

Life was never meant to be difficult, we just make it that way so that it fits into societies and our indoctrinated concept of what things should be like. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #indoctrination #life #societies #things

Life is beautiful and simple in many ways; but some of us insist on making it difficult. ↗

— Wazim Shaw

#complicated-life #difficulty #life #simplicity #beauty

You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget; they just get too excited. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#dog #humor #oberon #humor

She'd been trained as a child no to trust anyone, but he'd just saved her life, and she was freezing. He could be a yeti for all she cared. ↗

— Krystal Shannan

#holiday #humor #multicultural #romance #humor

My mouth gaped and I think I might have whimpered. The Norns had obliterated him completely—a creature they’d known for centuries—because of me. It was like watching Rudolph get shot by Santa Claus. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#humor #humor

AOAN LOVES LOKI. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#adam-vader #aoan #boys-next-door #comedy #loki

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? ↗

— Harper Lee

#empathy #judgement #judgement