“My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.” WayNeedsHeartChildrenSometimesPowerfulCreativeKnowingExpressionBalanceSolitudeDemandMotherhoodMy ChildrenNot KnowingCreative ExpressionSeparate LivesChafing Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France
“Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?” ChildrenMomentsGrowsChanceGrowing UpBalanceGratitudeInterfereSecond ChanceAnnoyance Author:Katrina Kenison
“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.” WorldChildrenMadeValuesFoundMorningFoodMonthsBalanceLuckyExpectationsCrossesGratefulLongingEightBlissSatHolidayChestsCheeksThrillingDollsLightingLiliesAbstinencePajamasUndressingCitrusTangerines Author:Barbara Kingsolver