Teach the Ordinary

A quick post. Plus The Heard

A very quick post today, just to share a bit of writing that E brought to my attention recently, and that I quite liked. You might, too.

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of ta…