{"id":83332,"date":"2026-03-05T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/?post_type=program&#038;p=83332"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:42:20","slug":"home-on-the-range-poems-for-the-2025-ks-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/ja\/program\/poet-laureate\/state-fair-poems\/home-on-the-range-poems-for-the-2025-ks-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Home on the Range: Poems for the 2025 KS State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"                <div class=\"hero-block hero-block--simple  \" >\n\n        <div class=\"breadcrumb_wrapper\">\n                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\">Home<\/a> \/\n                                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/ja\/programs-services\/\">Programs &#038; Services<\/a> \/\n                                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/ja\/program\/poet-laureate\/state-fair-poems\/\">Poems for the KS State Fair<\/a> \/\n                                                                <span>Home on the Range: Poems for the 2025 KS State Fair<\/span>\n                                    <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"container h-100\">\n            <div class=\"row align-items-center h-100\">\n                <div class=\"col-12 content\">\n                    <div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-traci-brimhall2023-2026-poet-laureate-of-kansas\">Poems for the 2025 Kansas State Fair<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The Poet Laureate of Kansas, Traci Brimhall, gathered work from poets across the state to showcase at the 2025 Kansas State Fair. Many of the poems are shortened versions of poems she collected as part of her poetry\/cookbook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meadowlarkbookstore.com\/s\/stories\/eat-your-words-a-kansas-poetry-cookbook\">Eat Your Words<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n\n    <div class=\"container \">            <div class=\"wrapper-block  \" style=\"\n                                                                                                                                    \">\n        \n<a class=\"row-block simple d-flex justify-content-between col-12\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/program\/poet-laureate\/state-fair-poems-2024\/\">\n    <h5>2024 State Fair Poems<\/h5>\n    <i class=\"icon-angle_right\" aria-label=\"View 2024 State Fair Poems\"><\/i><\/a>\n\n<a class=\"row-block simple d-flex justify-content-between col-12\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/program\/kcaic\/poet-laureate\/\">\n    <h5>State Fair Poems &#8211; Main Page<\/h5>\n    <i class=\"icon-angle_right\" aria-label=\"View State Fair Poems - Main Page\"><\/i><\/a>\n\n<a class=\"row-block simple d-flex justify-content-between col-12\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/program\/kcaic\/poet-laureate\/\">\n    <h5>KS Poet Laureate &#8211; Main Page<\/h5>\n    <i class=\"icon-angle_right\" aria-label=\"View KS Poet Laureate - Main Page\"><\/i><\/a>\n\n        <div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"container \">            <div class=\"accordion-block\">\n        <h3>All Poems<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"accordion\" id=\"accordionExample\">\n        \n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-773704339\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StateFairImages-2025-Added-05-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Luminary<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-773704339\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-773704339\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-773704339\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-773704339\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-773704339\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-773704339\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Luminary<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Traci Brimhall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Art is as urgent as spring grass,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inevitable as the kiss and its sweet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sequel. Art is a memory wrapped<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in a silver shroud, an ecstatic dance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with ghosts through the attic. It is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the image ambushing our loneliness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a melody trespassing the quiet. It is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the commitment to mistakes, but<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>its joys are unmistakable. Art is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a stage made of night, each small<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>star in a constellation burning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like a story. Art is where the light goes when it leaves our hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Luminary-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Fiona Campbell-Howes &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1509982014\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-17-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Saturated<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1509982014\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1509982014\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1509982014\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1509982014\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1509982014\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1509982014\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Saturated<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Elizabeth Dodd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bacon from the farmer whose daughter wrote spare poems in my class; onions from a friend\u2019s small garden plot. These items have intention, laid out like a still-life in the kitchen. I pictured beans a-soak in a big ceramic bowl, late-autumn sunlight slanting in the window, sliced onions luminous as an allusive curl of lemon peel. Baked beans, a recipe I\u2019d never tried. But in the bright chill of the market, a snap decision. I came home with a frozen mass of pig fat, too, looped and tangled like pale, headless eels or a wad of catfish slashed open with a knife. Only as the planks of fat relaxed and softened could you see: no flaky fish-flesh here, no remaining lattice-step of bone\u2026 It&#8217;s history I&#8217;m rendering down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Saturated-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Jeremy Keith &#8211; Attribution 2.0 &#8211; Generic CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1173493815\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-12-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Aunt Jane\u2019s Tomatoes<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1173493815\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1173493815\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1173493815\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1173493815\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1173493815\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1173493815\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Aunt Jane\u2019s Tomatoes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Olive L. Sullivan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019s nothing\u2019 better than this,<br>she says, her big raw-boned hands<br>cupping the reddest tomato on the vine,<br>her other hand reaching for mine.<br>We press our backs into the good rich dirt,<br>tomato plants a colonnade above us,<br>a dappled arched ceiling like a cathedral,<br>incense of pungent dust and spicy greenness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In the kitchen, every bowl and crock<br>overflows with every kind of tomato.<br>She slides a pan of oil-drizzled cherry tomatoes<br>into the oven, wipes her hands on her worn jeans,<br>Says, <em>but you gotta remember, boo, the only recipe you really need\u2014<br>one for a happy life, one for satisfaction.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AuntJanestomatoes-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Michal Klajban &#8211; Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International &#8211; CC BY-SA 4.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1377278726\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-15-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>That One Summer<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1377278726\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1377278726\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1377278726\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1377278726\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1377278726\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1377278726\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>That One Summer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Luisa Muradyan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was that one summer<br>when we decided we were garden people<br>and we went to the store where garden people go<br>and wandered around the way garden people do<br>and came home with tomato seeds and fertilizer.<br>We shoveled and seeded the plot of dirt behind our house<br>and knew that something beautiful would grow.<br>When it didn\u2019t, we tried to retrace our steps<br>and worked to understand what went wrong.<br>We read manuals and watched videos<br>brought in new soil and more seeds<br>we even joined a gardening grief group<br>where we sat in circles and talked<br>about the rain. We aren\u2019t garden people,<br>you sighed, and as I held you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ThatOneSummer-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Chad Miller &#8211; CC BY-SA 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-604474836\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-04-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Avocado<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-604474836\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-604474836\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-604474836\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-604474836\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-604474836\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-604474836\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Avocado<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Wyatt Townley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better than a baseball<br>how it fits<br>in the mitt of the palm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>emits its golden glow<br>from the center where<br>its pit goes back to earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to rise again a second birth<br>returning to the hand<br>that pitched it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the gold inside the green<br>offers up its light<br>and so we down its wisdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with every blessed bite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Avocado-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Ryan Ruppe &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic- CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1379730397\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-09-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Kirby House Waldorf Slaw<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1379730397\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1379730397\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1379730397\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1379730397\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1379730397\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1379730397\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Kirby House Waldorf Slaw<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Eric McHenry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a rough couple<br>of decades for us mayonnaise people.<br>Between its abundances of this and that<br>\u2014calories, salt, eggy and oily fat\u2014<br>and its essential off-whiteness it has come to stand,<br>somehow, for the insidiously bland.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are needs that no nutrition board can measure.<br>What\u2019s the recommended daily allowance for pleasure<br>taken in the familiar? We crave the classic<br>not because we love its mildly acidic, vaguely basic<br>flavor-d\u00e9tente but because we remember it so well,<br>served on our chipware and named for the grand hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KirbyHouseWaldorfSlaw-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Nillerdk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attribution 3.0 Unported&nbsp;&#8211; CC BY 3.0 &#8211; cropped, changes to contrast\/brightness]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1612793016\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-16-1024x684.png');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>The Gods Created Humans from Maize and Other Things I Know About Corn<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1612793016\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1612793016\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1612793016\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1612793016\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1612793016\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1612793016\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>The Gods Created Humans from Maize and Other Things I Know About Corn<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Miguel M. Morales<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know the masa of mama\u2019s tamales,<br>hominy in menudo, and tortillas de maiz.<br>Corn domesticated us, taught us how to<br>bend, like its stalk, without breaking, root<br>ourselves for stability, reach and search for<br>nurturing light, and use our canopy for shelter.<br>Crops, like corn, gifted our ancestors with the<br>ability to nurture families, form community,<br>develop art and language, and share meals<br>and story, because they also feed us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what I know about corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GodsCreatedHumansFromMaize-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: John Doebley &#8211; Attribution 2.5 Generic &#8211; CC BY 2.5]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-314387637\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StateFairImages-2025-Added-04-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Devotional<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-314387637\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-314387637\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-314387637\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-314387637\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-314387637\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-314387637\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Devotional<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Traci Brimhall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I come looking for many of the miracles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find\u2014the first yellow of April, a redbud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>pinking with spring, lichen silvering the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>conifer branches. Other graces find me too\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the wind carving its way along the ridge,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stumps of trees licked black by lightning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even the music of light hail on last year\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>leaves and the hymn of acorn cupules<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>crunching underfoot. Even before blackbird<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>nests clutch eggs or bison calve, everything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>radiates with life. The indigo only welcomes me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if I hold myself as quiet as a prayer, still as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a heron, let the seeds be touched awake by rain tithing itself to the dirty heaven at my feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Devotional-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Bureau of Land Management California &#8211; Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal PDM 1.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-2066492022\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-05-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Sage<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-2066492022\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-2066492022\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-2066492022\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-2066492022\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-2066492022\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-2066492022\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Sage<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Dennis Etzel Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This taste of my mother\u2019s worry that<br>her Thanksgiving stuffing was too savory<br>when we loved sinking into<br>the moist breading. In the cupboard<br>she saved for the holidays<br>vials of dried blessings while<br>I still learn from my Master Gardener<br>spouse the difference between basil\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sharpness and the comfort of thyme.<br>I\u2019m that believer from the monastery<br>of my spouse\u2019s preaching for whole<br>foods, how bitter notes complement<br>joy as I pick each leaf\u2019s sacrifice<br>which survived, like me, November nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sage-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Pussreboots &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic &#8211; CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped, changes to contrast\/brightness]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-721376503\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StateFairImages-2025-Added-03-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>The Road to Quivira<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-721376503\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-721376503\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-721376503\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-721376503\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-721376503\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-721376503\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>The Road to Quivira<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Traci Brimhall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not fall for it, dear heart. The glimmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of the horizon is an ending, not a promise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of gilt bells hanging from trees. Do not fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for the morbid gold of tombs. Do not buy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the myth and wander into the gilded fields<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hunting for a lost city. Don\u2019t become the next<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronado. The road to Quivira is a road made<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of bones. Dear heart, you\u2019re a cathedral with a horse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inside it. You are as loyal as any good star. Stop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ignoring the coronas of daisies. The dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is in front of you. Let yellow tantalize,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but let it be here, where that dream-sick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>conquistador found the riches of black earth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>springs as abundant as hope, and plums<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that fill your palm sweeter than any bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RoadtoQuivira-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Kitty Terwolbeck &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1146482652\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-03-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Three Meats, One Bowl<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1146482652\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1146482652\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1146482652\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1146482652\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1146482652\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1146482652\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Three Meats, One Bowl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Wanderer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the pot, they meet\u2014onion, celery, carrot\u2014<br>a trinity of roots, diced fine,<br>softening in butter and oil\u2019s quiet warmth,<br>sweating truth into the stew.<br>It\u2019s something I always do, the trinity of roots\u2026 and truth.<br>The meats arrive\u2014beef, pork, bison\u2014<br>each carrying its story, its weight.<br>One leans heavy with history,<br>another, wild with untamed roots,<br>and the third, the bridge, blending borders.<br>Together, they brown and bloom,<br>the past made tender over flame.<br>Cooking, like love, sets your senses ablaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ThreeMeats-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Jun Seita &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic &#8211; CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped, changes to contrast\/brightness]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-177079477\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-07-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>When Asked to Write This Poem for a Cookbook,<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-177079477\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-177079477\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-177079477\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-177079477\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-177079477\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-177079477\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>When Asked to Write This Poem for a Cookbook<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Melissa Fite Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose the hardest dish because I didn\u2019t have to cook it,<br>only write it. Beef bourguignon, Julia Child\u2019s most famous.<br>My mother loved Little Golden Books, mommy and daughter<br>bake a pie for daddy. She wanted us to live this illustration.<br>When I resisted the kitchen, she said no one would marry me<br>if I couldn\u2019t cook. I didn\u2019t know how to be myself<br>and learn this skill, so I didn\u2019t. I imagine Julia Child<br>beside my computer, complimenting my first draft,<br>marveling at how poems spring from simple words<br>the way meals start as ingredients. Julia Child longed for<br>a child. I wanted a mother who might love me exactly as I am.<br>Neither of us got our wish, but we both learned the recipe<br>for a happy life is forgiving. Substitute a child,<br>substitute a mother, for a passion, for a wonderful marriage.<br>My husband cooks. I wash the dishes. He fills the house<br>with the smell of simmering wine. After, I fill it with lavender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhenAskedWritePoem-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Stu Spivack &#8211; Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic &#8211; CC BY-SA 2.0 &#8211; cropped, changes to contrast\/brightness]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-300108026\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-08-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Bierocks<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-300108026\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-300108026\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-300108026\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-300108026\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-300108026\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-300108026\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Bierocks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Kevin Rabas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When my father had fallen down, not<br>his body, but his mind, and stayed home<br>months in his chair and in his bed,<br>my mother made him bierocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bierocks mom made where like the ones<br>father ate as a kid, his mother: German,<br>who could speak it and only made it past<br>third grade, lived in Luray on the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bierocks were part cabbage, part meat:<br>beef, and they were wrapped with the kind<br>of love someone knows like leavening, like the small<br>particles that waft in light, like moths,<br>like angels, like touch. Like love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Bierocks-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Nicknbecka &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic &#8211; CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped, changes to contrast\/brightness]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-141700904\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StateFairImages-2025-Added-06-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Prairie Ecology<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-141700904\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-141700904\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-141700904\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-141700904\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-141700904\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-141700904\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Prairie Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Traci Brimhall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the pink flash of grasshopper wings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>makes me think <em>solitude<\/em> and a prickly pear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the path guards itself alone, a kaleidoscope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of butterflies puddling on cow pies gives me pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am trying to listen with care, to trust last year\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>hedge apples that seem to say <em>abundance. <\/em>By the pond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you say, <em>Listen\u2014<\/em>and I do, as spring peepers plop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>into the safety of deeper water. I admire the raw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>orange of a lone exposed root in the mud, before<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>three horses appear sudden as evening shadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>behind us, hooves tamping damp earth. My body<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>says <em>Be careful, <\/em>but the tickle I feel is only you reaching<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for me so we can both take custody of this memory\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how love is an ecology of awe that takes turns blooming <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and feasting and breathless when you touch me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PrairieEcology-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Rawpixel &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-2107062918\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-19-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>The Little Chef<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-2107062918\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-2107062918\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-2107062918\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-2107062918\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-2107062918\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-2107062918\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>The Little Chef<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Brian Daldorph<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home alone in his parents\u2019 cold house,<br>he makes Magic Meatloaf<br>from a recipe in his Irish grandmother\u2019s<br>handwritten cookbook of spells,<br>finding all the ingredients\u2014<br>garlic, breadcrumbs, spices, salt, ketchup,<br>ground beef, spuds and sausage&#8211;<br>in his mother\u2019s kitchen.<br>He cooks for his family so supper will be ready<br>when they get home to that savory aroma<br>that will dispel their misery<br>as they sit together to fill themselves with<br>the warm goodness of magic meatloaf.<br>\u201cEat up,\u201d he\u2019ll say. \u201cEat up!\u201d<br>All of them stuffed with meatloaf and love<br>so they\u2019ll never be hungry again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LittleChef-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Fourbyfourblazer &#8211; Attribution 2.0 Generic &#8211; CC BY 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1816356787\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-02-1024x684.jpg');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Smoke Carries the Wish to the Heavens<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1816356787\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1816356787\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1816356787\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1816356787\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1816356787\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1816356787\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Smoke Carries the Wish to the Heavens<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Traci Brimhall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once my mother baked with patience<br>and a glossary of her sorrows. The frosting<br>embroidered her wish for a steadier happiness,<br>the knife alert in her hand, ready to serve<br>her love on paper plates. My hunger stirs<br>a dream of cream and flour, delicious as any<br>of rain\u2019s brief kisses on the garden. Years ago,<br>I sucked frosting from birthday candles,<br>their small fires quieting in me. Today, I lick<br>whipped cream from the beaters, and the sad<br>songs turn sweet, my body less lonely in<br>the company of sugar and heat. Sun brightens<br>the knife as it slides into the cake. My fingers<br>make the shadows of candles. I close my eyes.<br>The memory is already my wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SmokeCarriesWish-web.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[image credit: Scott Schiller &#8211; Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic &#8211; CC BY-SA 2.0 &#8211; cropped]<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"card detailed\">\n    <div class=\"card-header row align-items-stretch relative\" id=\"heading-1491283168\">\n        <div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n            <div class=\"bg-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kansascommerce.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/StateFairImages-2025-18-1024x684.png');\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n            <div class=\"content\">\n                <h4>Sweet Things<\/h4>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <button class=\"btn-link\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1491283168\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1491283168\"><\/button>\n        <a href=\"javascript:;\" class=\"cover_link\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#collapse-1491283168\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-1491283168\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div id=\"collapse-1491283168\" class=\"collapse \" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1491283168\"  data-parent=\"#accordionExample\">\n        <div class=\"card-body\">\n            \n\n<p><em>Sweet Things<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Huascar Medina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every caf\u00e9 has a pastry display case diva\u2014a slice of sweet. The star of the show, ogled by a line of patrons, humming a sweet tooth love song. That was us, patiently waiting our turn, sharing timelines of happiness before the daily grind turned us into drive-thru service windows with no bakery views.<br>Maybe we should slow down, my love? Take a drive to Kechi. Turn off the radio and talk like we\u2019re waiting in a long line and no one\u2019s paying attention. Let\u2019s stop at Elderslie Farm, harvest our fruit, practice intentionality, put in more effort, and make better choices.<br>Once home, let\u2019s bake together. Play some Chaka Khan or Cleo Sol. Read our recipes out loud. 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Our chapters<br>will be like our seasons\u00ad \u2014 reliable in their surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story we are writing to the future has facts, like how<br>a sunflower\u2019s face is a union of individual seeds all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>leaning towards the sun together. This story grows.<br>It changes with each day. 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