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You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the words 'I have something to tell you', the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in the thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice in the morning echoing from the kitchen...
— Feb 02, 2022 05:25PM
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"They are what we once were: vigorous creatures fully immersed in the physical world. For better, I think, human beings long ago grew out of that immersion, and strove toward a different world, one of reason, one of the spirit. But we do well when we pay attention to our forbears... In them is poetry, energy, exuberance; in them is life, pure and untrammeled, unadulterated and holy. We learn most and best about life by contemplating life; that is why we stare achingly at our children as they sleep, that is why our happiest moments are those spent in the arms and hearts of those who love us, that is why we are inexplicably pleased when a sparrow pauses for a second at the window and regards us with an irrepressible eye."