“Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.” ChildrenRealHomeParentStrangeCitizensNeighborMysteriousRegionsSiblingUnfathomableApparitions Book:Letter to My Daughter Source: Letter to My Daughter
“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