All my life, up until that moment, I'd had a warm, protective blanket wrapped around me, knitted of aunts and uncles, purled of first and second and third cousins, knot-tied with grandmas and grandpas and greats. That blanket had just dropped from my shoulders. I felt cold, lost and alone.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the feeling of losing the comfort and security provided by family ties.
In this quote, Karen Marie Moning illustrates the profound sense of security that comes from familial love and support, likening it to a warm blanket. The moment this 'blanket' is withdrawn symbolizes a loss of connection, resulting in feelings of coldness, isolation, and vulnerability, highlighting the importance of family in providing emotional warmth and stability in life.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a family gathering to remind everyone of the importance of connection.
One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.
I'd teach them to read and to dream and to look at the stars and wonder. I'd teach them the value of imagination. I'd teach them to play every bit as hard as they worked. And I'd teach them that all the brains in the world can't compensate for love.
I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.
The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
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