The alchemy of parenthood is so mysterious…It’s as though we were working long repetitive shifts on an assembly line, and in the end we had the Sistine Chapel.
– Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
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Love this quote and love Anna Quindlen. I read her book a couple of weeks before my wedding and wanted to quote one of her passages on marriage in my vows but alas, the Priest wouldn’t permit personalization. 🙂
Oh my…this is exquisite. Yes, this surely captures the journey of parenthood. It’s interesting, too, that I feel as though already on my path of parenthood, I have moments (or seasons) of working on the assembly line and awe-struck observing the Sistine Chapel. A lovely way of looking at this journey. Love, Lisa
Ah! Love it! Haven’t started her new book yet. . . it’s in the pile. . . .
And in the true alchemy of such creative undoing and remaking it is our soul Selves that is illuminated with that sheltering sky of a ceiling, as much mirror as memory.
Aaaahhhh!!!! Oh my goodness!!