Making the Best of What's Left Quotes

“In this clever tale (a parable from Your Sacred Self by Dr. Wayne Dyer) two babies living in their mother's womb - call them Baby A and Baby B - are arguing whether there's life after delivery. Baby A considers the notion nonsense. How would they walk? How would they eat? What kind of life could such a life possibly be? Baby B insists that maybe they'll walk and eat and live in ways that they simply can't imagine right now, that maybe they'll have legs to walk on, that they might not need an umbilical cord anymore, that perhaps there'll even be a little more light. The argument continues, with Baby A shrewdly pointing out that no one has ever returned from After Delivery and that therefore is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. But Baby B in unconvinced; he insists that after delivery they will meet Mother and Mother will take care of them, a statement that Baby A finds utterly laughable. Because if Mother exists, he points out to Baby B, how can it be that no one has ever seen her?”
― Judith Viorst, Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

“For instance, in the months before the crucial election of 2024, a friend of mine delivered to my RC apartment door one thousand get-out-the-vote preprinted postcards. My job was to add a brief encouraging note to every card, a personal touch that might help to seal the deal, which I did by composing some earnest, upbeat, very (and I mean very) simple poems, one or another of which I inscribed on each postcard. Doing a batch of twenty a day, with mellow music playing in the background, I spent a small portion of fifty truly soul-satisfying mornings doing my small something to help save the world.”
― Judith Viorst, Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered