Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
Anne LamottNo matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
Anne LamottLittle by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. Weโre a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.
Anne Lamott