"When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' taste and zest for life: we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable. (Or worse, convenience -mart hot dogs and latchkey kids.) I consider it the great hoodwink of my generation."
--Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle page 127
Great hoodwink is right in so many ways. More later.
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