No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.