Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

Be lovely and do no harm.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.