An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.
But when we moved to the country, miles from the nearest restaurant, his hints anent his favorite dies grew so insistent that it became a question of tripe or divorce, and for a short time it was a difficult decision.
But when physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.
Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for coming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.
And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn't just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they were.
I don't feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You're my home. All of the dark shadows seem to disappear when we're together.
I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.
It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside." A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.
Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived
Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese
Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.
I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.
Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully. "We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.
Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty." "Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied
It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.
Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.
