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Quote of the Week
When parents talk about having a child who is ill or struggling, nonparents often take the wrong message. They think, Thank God I was spared all that pain. If I can’t order up the precise specifications for my child, the condition in which he emerges, the choices he’ll make, if I can’t be assured that he’ll skirt the dangers that await him, maybe it’s better not to have children at all.
Those of us who know the airless terror of the 10 steps between the second you first glimpse your child’s surgeon through the glass doors and the moment he’s standing in front of you, delivering the verdict—we don’t think this way. Each time one of ours is ill or in pain, we think, Thank God I am here for him.
Source: Abigail Shrier, The Free Press
Posted: 2025 Oct 10Music of the Week
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Category Archives: Appreciating Deeply
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Seasonal Travel; Seasonal Wishes
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Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Laughing Frequently, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Attitudes, Birds, Christmas, Travel
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When One Doore is Shut
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Yes, Virginia
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Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Laughing Frequently, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Conversations, Miscellany, Technology
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Then and Now
More car-window reflections! Back by popular demand. Continue reading
Interjections, Abbreviations, Cautions
‘Tis the season. (Not that one, not quite, but a necessary precursor.) Continue reading
No Expectations
Your annual fall update. Continue reading
Happy Warriors All
L’chaim! To life! Continue reading
