"Your body is the first thing any child of man ever wanted. Therefore dispose yourself to be loved, to be wanted, to be available. Be there for them with a vengeance. Be a gracious, bending woman. Incline your ear, your heart, your hands to them.... To be a Mother is to be the sacrament - the effective symbol - of place. Mothers do not make homes, they are our home." from Bed and Board, Robert Farrar Capon

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

I'm Dashed


“I find that my fine generalities have dashed themselves to pieces against the six 
very concrete children that I have.  I live surrounded by a mixture of violence and loveliness, 
 of music and insensitivity. I take my meals with clods and poets, but I am seldom certain which is which.”

Robert Farrar Capon
Bed and Board


4 comments:

  1. I love it! And the photo!! And the apron fabric which matches the little girl wearing the apron!!!

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  2. Ah yes! I'm dashed, and I wouldn't trade my whirlwind for anything! :-)

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  3. I take my meals with clods and poets, but I am seldom certain which is which. I think that line is so Shakespeare-ish. ( And I easily picture my own clods and poets around our dinner table!)

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