Perzen Patel

the reason that this community works is because most of the people in it operate from the mindset “I owe everyone everything” which is the exact opposite of the relatively popular “you don’t owe anyone anything” sentiment.

This is why I spent my entire day yesterday making almost 70 pounds of mashed potatoes for our church coffee hour today. Because

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that salt added after cooking that is not fully dissolved [into solution] has a more pronounced salt flavor than dissolved salt [Thomas Keller.

The world tells you that you can be anything, so you forget how to be yourself.

It shows you everything you can become, so you abandon what you already are.

It offers you a million lives; you choose none, and lose the one that was already yours.

I can view my job as a mother as less of a sculptor and more of an improv dancer — it’s not my job to mold them into the perfect person, but instead to observe them carefully and provide for their unique needs so they can thrive and we can all have more fun