Notes on Adulthood: July 26

It has been months since I have posted our Notes on Adulthood segment. Notes on Adulthood is a neat way to explore some of the little lessons we learn from livin’ each day. So, I am bringing it back! Don’t forget we take contributions, so feel free to send me an email or a tweet at welcometoadulthood@gmail.com or at @AdulthoodMara. Let us know what you have learned this week!

Here are my notes on adulthood (both quotations!) from this week:

1) The other day, a very cool adult (who is very well established in her profession) told me, “You never do stop asking yourself what you want to be when you grow up.’” Duly noted.

2) Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak once recounted a story of young fan. “A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it,” Sendak recalled. “I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over.

I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

I like this quote. It reminds me that love is sometimes just too big, too special, too rare and wonderful to explain in words. And love is out there, friends! Find it, feel it, and eat it up. Every piece of it.

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1. Luke says:

   July 27, 2011 at 4:15 pm

   “Find it, feel it, and eat it up. Every piece of it” – words to live by to be sure, and not just for the times when one is faced with Turkish kebabs!

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