“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.” WayMotherSeaBrotherWindWindowRegardNoiseMy BrotherFashionableChimes Book:Let The Great World Spin Source: Let The Great World Spin
“All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.” CharacterKidsChildhoodBrotherPaperDrawsAdultsWindowGlassesDrawingMy BrotherTracingDrawing Pictures Author:Maurice Sendak
“When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.” LongImportantHomeAgeCommunityBrotherWindowHungryGrandmotherMatureMy SisterGrandparentGrandchildrenMy GrandmotherLong LifeNursingColorfulSmelly Author:Loung Ung
“I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.” SaidEnoughShowsWantedMovingSongBrotherTvsWindowChocolateTv ShowsOrangeWashingCountyOrange County Author:Pat Paulsen