“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.” ~Shirley Abbott
'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)
Emily McClelland (at age 7)
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”
Emily McClelland (1998- )
'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.
Emily McClelland (at age 3)
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) American Theologian, Historian
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