“The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and out and out and out into the world which becomes the home wherein charity begins until it becomes possible, in theory at least, to love the whole of creation with the same patience, affection, and amusement one first practiced, in between the pouts and tantrums, with parents, siblings, spouse, and children.” WorldFirstsChildrenWholeHomeParentStreetsCreationTheoryDrawsCharityAffectionSpouseAmusementSiblingThresholdAnd OffPorchTantrums Author:Nancy Mairs
“In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.” FirstsHardPracticeHeardCommunicationArmsListeningUnderstoodBreastsTerrifiedCraving Book:Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
