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That the things in life which don’t go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.
The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I’d been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don’t even need words.
Karen Blixen wrote, in her Seven Gothic Tales, ‘I know a cure for everything: salt water . . . in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.’
This stuff is small; life is large.
