FATHERS AND MOTHERS October 19, 2009
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Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh said, “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” (Time, October 19, 2009)
MARRIAGE March 1, 2009
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Dustin Hoffman says, “There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.” (“Just Dustin,” by Meg Grant, AARP Magazine, March&April, 2009)
LOVE December 26, 2008
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Peter Jenkins, a home-schooled student I worked with when he was in high school, was quoted as saying the loveliest thing about a stream: “Getting to know Patten Stream is like a love that develops slowly. Each visit brings new surprises and enjoyment. Each stretch of brook. each day and hour brings a new mood …. I have been awed by the rushing water after a rainstorm and watching the mist settle over the beaver meadows at dusk.” I wish I could claim credit for having taught him to write like that, but these words and the thoughts and feelings they convey are all his.
