Does life feel a bit too chaotic, undisciplined, messy, unmanageable sometimes... with kids underfoot and laundry undone, dishes in the sink and errands piling up, gray hairs popping up and brain fog taking over? Thanks to Kristin van Ogtrop, editor of Real Simple magazine, for sharing this quote by Sara Gruen from the novel Water for Elephants: “Those were the salad days, the halcyon years! The sleepless nights, the wailing babies; the days the interior of the house looked like it had been hit by a hurricane; the times I had five kids, a chimpanzee, and a wife in bed with fever. Even when the fourth glass of milk got spilled in a single night, or the shrill screeching threatened to split my skull, or when I was bailing out some son or other from a minor predicament at the police station, they were good years, grand years. But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were in it up to our eyeballs, and next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.” – Sara Gruen, Like Water for Elephants
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:09:20 +0000
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