#local

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bottle #by the time #cook #cooking #decide

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#bearable #brave #brave men #commitments #communities

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#better #card #change #credit #credit card

Nothing truly beautiful without its element of strangeness, nothing whole without its own incongruity, these (Jacksonville-area pioneer house) ruins sand up from the earth in sacred conjunction. These ruins conjoin the earth and the manmade, moving from one to the other and back again. The Browards built their house out of shell and limestone, and limestone forms naturally from the shells and skeletons of miniscule sea creatures over great periods of time. The Browards shaped the earth upright toward the sky. THey shaped it with doorframes and windows and chimneys. THey shaped the earth up around them as a shelter. But shaped earth was always the earth. Now the walls fall back down and join once again the ground, taken over by roots of ferns and weeds and small trees. The house was always the ground, only contained in an upward suspension. The house was always the earth, but brought up into architecture, and now the house that was always the earth crumbles back into the earth and nourishes new green things -- dog fennel and morning glories and palmettoes and cabbage palms and cedars. A true symbol of sacredness of the earth is earth's reclaiming of human ingenuity. ↗

— Tim Gilmore

#ghost-stories #local-history #paranormal #architecture

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#breaks #down #else #everything #existence

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#help #how #local #malicious #matter

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#become #billion #careless #four #galaxy

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways. ↗

— Joan Blades

#communities #crowd #different #either #individuals

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#cut #deficits #deny #facing #greater