Demetrius Cunningham
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On bread.
Bread is pretty amazing. But it shouldn’t be anybody’s *only* therapeutic resource.
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On wasted ingenuity.
Everyone strives, but we force some to waste their efforts reinventing the wheel – or the water heater, or the piano, or…
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