“Peace begins in thought. Thoughts enworded go from mind to mind, and mind makes the world. Peace, illusive, abstract, negative Yin, dream, would take a long writing-out to make real. Its book has to be longer than war books—longer than a bumper sticker, longer than a sound bite. As we read, neuropeptides in the brain grow longer, longer than in nonreaders. Thought becomes body. Sudden fast change is a method of war. The logic of peace has to be spoken out at length.”
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Fifth Book of Peace
Origins: Peanuts
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Americans for more than a century have known peanuts primarily as a snack
food, but it didn't start out that way. Cultivated by indigenous peoples
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