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Bread

To accompany (au con pain),

as in "companion," means

"to come with bread"

Bakers knead bread not only with their own hands,

but with the hands of those who taught them to bake.

-- Jim Forest

Baking with Mom
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Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

Fresh Dough

Praise those who came before you...

You eat the bread of their labor.

You drink the wine of their joy.

-- Marge Piercy

Making Bread
We are bound to one another ... like flour in a loaf.
-- Saint John Chrysostom

Kindness is like yeast. It leavens and lifts what is heavy. -- Gunilla Norris

Preparing Dough

Such is the economy of nature - your strength,

like a pinch of yeast, will surely agitate,

ferment all that comes under its influence,

your actions, thoughts, words,

will take their place without any special effort.

-- Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Bread for myself
is a physical question;

bread for my neighbor
is a spiritual question.
 
-- Nikolai Berdyaev
Fresh Bread
Brown Wooden Surface
Baguette

We are all mere beggars

telling other beggars

where to find bread.

-- D.T. Niles

Brown Wooden Surface

Take, eat: this is my body,

which is broken for you.

This do in remembrance of me.

     -- I Corinthians 11:24

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