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The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated wind of the plains has leeway to seek out the hidden registers of its voice. Where immigrant farmers planted windbreaks a hundred and fifty years ago. it keens in protest; where the young corn shoots up, it whispers as it passes, crossing field after field in its own time, following eastward trends but in no hurry to find open water. You can't usually see it in paintings, but it's an important part of the scenery.

~ John Darnielle

John Darnielle Corn Midwest Nature Trees Wind

They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at time have supplied water to one-third of Canadians and one-seventh of Americans. They're vaster than the entire New England region and define beachfront to many people who have never seen an ocean.

~ Susan Magsamen

Susan Magsamen Great Lakes Midwest Travel

In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).

~ Martha Southgate

Martha Southgate Hair Midwest Natural Hair Self Esteem White Supremacy

All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father’s home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in.

~ Gwenn Wright

Gwenn Wright Bluestocking Girl Dance Gwenn Wright Midwest Mystery Saga St Louis Teen Thriller Von Strassenberg William Drexler Ya

There was that sound again--snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form--Dear God--sprang with a splash from the darkness--grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

~ Kaye George

Kaye George Classical Music Composer Conductor Midwest Music Mystery

If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.

~ Kathleen Flinn

Kathleen Flinn Adventure Kids Midwest

They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

~ Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson America Clouds Iowa July Midwest Skies Storms Weather West

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

~ Leah Stewart

Leah Stewart Ambition Midwest

With all this snow, with the sun not there, with the cold and dreariness, this place doesn't look like my America, doesn't even look real. It's like we are in a terrible story, like we're in the crazy parts of the Bible, there where God is busy punishing people for their sins and is making them miserable with all the weather. The sky, for example, has stayed white all this time I have been here, which tells you that something is not right. Even the stones know that a sky is supposed to be blue, like our sky back home, which is blue, so blue you can spray Clorox on it and wipe it with a paper towel and it wouldn't even come off.

~ Noviolet Bulawayo

Noviolet Bulawayo Immigrant Experience Midwest Sky Weather Winter Zimbabwe

Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

~ Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek Baseball Midwest Sports
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