Tag: comfort
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March 22, 2022
I’ve been thinking a lot about comfort lately—where to find it, how to give it. I recently received a letter from a fifth-grade teacher who said that she has always read aloud in the classroom; but that this year, she has doubled her read-aloud time. “The kids need the comfort of it, and I need…
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July 7, 2021
Yesterday on a walk, a woman stopped me and said: “Can I tell you? My three year old was so upset last night and she kept on saying the same sentence over and over ‘I want to go the Watson’s house.’ And I kept saying ‘We don’t know any Watsons.’ And finally she screamed, ‘Toast!…
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May 10, 2018
“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” These words of Rumi’s comforted me this morning. I’m…
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February 11, 2014
I’ve been sick and being sick reminds me of being a kid, because I was sick all the time when I was a kid. Last night, I was lying on the bathroom floor and I thought: why does lying on the bathroom floor give me so much comfort? I had fevers a lot when I…
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August 23, 2012
Well, I have dog-eared, underlined and exclamation-pointed my way through the collected essays of E.B. White. And I have to say that I am sad to be done. Actually, what I am is bereft. I never knew E.B. White, but I miss him terribly. His ability to see, to marvel–his rueful, joyful ruminations–have kept me…