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Beauty and Attention in Our Ordinary Need

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Bethany Douglass
May 20, 2025
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There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food. Relaxation, communication, and a measure of beauty and pleasure should be apart of even the shortest of meals breaks.

—Edith Shaeffer, Th…

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