“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you. No matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big because to them, all of it has always been big stuff.”
I found this post particularly satisfying. My father spent his waning years of increased memory loss and dementia (unfortunately--or maybe fortunately--depending on how you look at it) railing against the growing conservatism in politics and religion, blaming this trend on the inability to tolerate ambiguity among the right-wing.
dear benjamin,
wonderful quotes as always!
i particularly love this one:
“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you. No matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big because to them, all of it has always been big stuff.”
— Catherine M. Wallace
it's so good!
thank you for sharing!
love
myq
I found this post particularly satisfying. My father spent his waning years of increased memory loss and dementia (unfortunately--or maybe fortunately--depending on how you look at it) railing against the growing conservatism in politics and religion, blaming this trend on the inability to tolerate ambiguity among the right-wing.
Excellent! Seems like tolerance for ambiguity strongly correlates with capacity for contentment….