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Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Beth Kephart

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Beth Kephart
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
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Wilmington
Delaware
Heart
Honors
Honor
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Mystery
Numbers
Learned
Takes
Nature

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Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.
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Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.
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Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
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I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.
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How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?
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Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you hope you will see, what hasn’t been that might be.
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Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
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