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The style of things, the kind of things that we shall love in later life are fixed in that moment when the child's strong gaze selects and molds the figures of fantasy that for it are going to last.

— Colette
4w ago
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A Strange Continent

I had hoped, while my kids were still kids, that we'd live in Texas for a year, that they'd know something of my childhood—not just America generally, but something about the neighborhood I grew up in and the space and the year-round warm weather that makes childhood an outdoor sport, and not an indoor one as it is in England from October onward.

2mo ago

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. But a nation that destroys its children has no future worth saving.

3mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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