"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

Family, Childhood, Right, Snow

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"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

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"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."

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"Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand."

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"As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child's situation."

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"The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red."

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"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

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"People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there."

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"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another."

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"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."

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"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."

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"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."

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"The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it."

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"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."

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"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."

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