If as parents we don't give children the time and attention they need, if we don't raise them as we should, then something is profoundly wrong.

If as churches we fail to raise children as priceless individuals committed to a common cause, then something is profoundly wrong.

If as communities we fail to reach out to children on the edges, under bridges, in the streets and brothels, then something is profoundly wrong.

Understanding God's heart for children points a way forward....

死后出版的 Moments of Being 是 Woolf 唯一的自传书写。其中她说到一句话：

From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we — I mean all human beings — are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art.

她把生活芜杂的表象比作 cotton wool（棉絮），认为存在本身有着更深邃的 pattern。这个 pattern 就是 art，不仅如此，我们自身也是 art 的一部分。

这让我想起 Saul Bellow 接受诺贝尔奖的演讲中的一句：

Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world.

提问：你是否认同 art 是穿透生活的表象，抵达更深层 pattern 的唯一方式？为什么？

Marygrace Gladden

“Relearning Home”

Looking back on my life it seems to only be one minute, filled to the brim with memories of so many different places. These personal spaces feel foreign when I try to recall them now. Trying to make my memories less distorted and associating them with some realness and accuracy has helped when it comes to remembering times that have passed.
This work is an effort to make my memories more vivid as well as documenting my time at home as an adult. Once these places are out of my reach, I will have the photographs as artifacts of when they were mine.