Dispatches from childhood - by Simon Sarris

Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way. Everything is visceral to them, and they carry this visceral interiority everywhere.

Dispatches from childhood Simon Sarris Feb 23, 2023 147 12 2 Share Aurore is the sweetest and the most ridiculous person. Her father makes her drink while he says: Dominus vobiscum! then she drinks and answers: Amen! How she is getting on! What a marvel is the development of a little child! No one has ever written about that. Followed day by day, it would be precious in every respect. It is one of those things that we all see without noticing. — G. Sand , writing to Flaubert, about her grand-daughter We have two children now, 2.5 years (Lu) and 6 months (Helena). Simi once remarked that we won

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