"How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three,
and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone,
and narrow to be everything to someone?
No.
A woman's function is laborious,
but because it is gigantic,
not because it is minute.
I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task;
I will never pity her for its smallness.”
- g.k. chesterton
counting these moments (and this task) as precious today. lest they fly past without imprinting themselves on my heart.
love.
How beautiful.
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