I am rummaging through my scraps of quotes, sayings, pictures, torn corners of notebook paper -- all of the things that I need to organize in some sort of reasonable, logical order so that these treasured fragments of thought and prose, love and woe can be called to mind and shared with someone special at just the right time. But they will probably never be that way-organized that is. However, while searching and sifting I found several tidbits that I will need in the future and actually found the very object of my search. I wrote it on a scrap some time ago, which of course has been neatly cut into a little rectangle, just the size that will get easily tucked in and lost in the ever growing stack of important, to be saved forever, papers on my desk. I don't know where I read it or how I saw it but it spoke to me. I have since found that Elaine Heffner has penned many quotes regarding mothers and motherhood but this is the one that first caught my eye and caused me to pause and to write it down on a little scrap of paper - I'll prabably keep the scrap - just because.
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
~ Elaine Heffner
Beautiful! I think that we will have to incorporate this into our background or subtitle or something!
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