“The tribal clans and royal dynasties that gave structure and stability to hunter-gatherer and civilized societies alike throughout most of human history could never have existed were it not for the deep emotional bonds forged in the crucible of family.”
Source: Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
“Maxi Paton was not a rescue puppy, but Maxi needed to be saved.”
“Our paranoia about parenting is a symptom of a society that feels less and less certain about what matters in life, and why. -- Charlotte Faircloth, founding member of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent”
Source: Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
“Children are objectively important, and require care, attntion, stimulation, education. In lives that lack centres, it makes sense that these concrete tasks could fill the void: if we cannot name the moral terrain of our lives, we can make parenting our crucial moral task. And if this results in giving too much space to our children, it is only because we do not know what that space might otherwise contain.”
Source: Adult Fantasy: Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
“Twenty-five years of age, Jesse was young in years, but the fatherless boy had ridden a long, hard trail of poverty, hardship, and bigotry before his mother’s deathbed revelation directed his path to the Franklin family.”
Source: Thanksgiving
“He has my features but his soul is clean.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“Join the mob or go for what you want. Give yourself plenty of quiet time alone in order to get in touch with who you are...Focus power of thought. Remind yourself that the world is yours for the asking. The non-risker does not grow, you just get older. When you have decided which ideas, beliefs, relationships, and situations no longer work for you, it is time to release them. Let go of negative thoughts - view them as a flight of birds crossing your path. See them fly into view and continue on their way.' - from Joan Root's diary”
Source: Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa
“I don't fixate on the little things because I refuse to control the setting like my mother tried to control mine.
I let everyone be who they want to be, and I love my children more than a fucking chair.”
Source: Some Kind of Perfect
“We’re flashing what our next two generations could be out here living off of.”
“I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I’d had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.”
Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four