Why was he alive on Earth? Very often the meaning was obscured. Very often it required some digging. The meaning of his life was an elusive stream of water hundreds of feet below the surface, and he would periodically drop a bucket down the well, fill it, bring it up and drink from it. But this did not sustain him for long.
Dave EggersThere were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells.
Dave EggersThe raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
Dave EggersTag: parenting
Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.
Dave EggersDid children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.
Dave EggersPeople don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.
Dave EggersWhat he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on.
Dave EggersIt all meant something. Until it didn't.
Dave EggersTag: meaning
This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.
Dave EggersThe work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.
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