Sublime

This is followed by a leisurely twenty-minute shower, a late breakfast, a long nap, and then a meandering perusal through a variety of periodicals. Meanwhile, I am ferrying our daughter to birthday parties and playdates. On weekend evenings, Tom doesn’t check with me before he meets friends for drinks; he just breezes out the door with the

Achei que conhecesse a riqueza até ir para o colégio interno, e então descobri qual é a verdadeira face da opulência.

The modern woman is a blur of activity. She is pressured to be all things to all people. The old knowing is long overdue.

What is required of parents is not perfection but attention, a willingness to learn and relearn, repeatedly—what each child individually needs, and needs from us, in order to blossom and thrive.

At lunch and dinner I serve vegetables first, when the kids are hungriest. We don’t move on to the main course until they at least make a dent in the starter.

J’ai mis plus de trente ans à trouver l’équilibre entre suffisamment de nourriture, d’exercice et de repos, à apprendre comment vivre entre trop et trop peu pour mener une vie heureuse.