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Jill Vialet
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May 2013
Playful Inspiration
My first novel, Recess Rules, came out earlier this month. It's the story of four friends who save recess at their school with the help of an angel-on-probation named Clarence—both in homage to It's a Wonderful Life and the parks and recreation coordinator from my Washington, D.C., childhood playground.
However, Recess Rules is not the book I set out to write. My initial intent had been to write a Read more of this blog post »
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“Human babies are, as Keltner puts it, “the most vulnerable offspring on the face of the Earth,” unable to function without the help of benevolent adults. We’re born this fragile to accommodate our enormous brains, which would be too big to fit through the birth canal if we arrived after they fully developed. But our “premature” birth date turns out to be one of the more hopeful facts about our species. It means that the more intelligent our species grew, the more sympathetic we had to become, in order to take care of our hopelessly dependent young. We needed to decipher their inscrutable cries. We needed to feed them, we needed to love them.”
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole