Beautiful Sentences: Michelle Obama’s “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times”

“…raising little kids followed the same basic trajectory we’d experienced with both pregnancy and childbirth: You can spend a lot of time dreaming, preparing and planning for family life to go perfectly, but in the end, you’re pretty much just left to deal with whatever happens. You can establish systems and routines, anoint your various sleep, feeding, and disciplinary gurus from the staggering variety that exist. You can write your family bylaws and declare your religion and philosophy out loud, discussing everything ad nauseam with your partner. But, at some point, sooner rather than later, you will almost surely be brought to your knees, realizing that despite your best and most earnest efforts, you are only marginally—and sometimes very marginally—in control. You may have spent years captaining your own ocean liner with admirable command and antiseptic levels of cleanliness and order, but now you must face the fact that there are pint-sized hijackers on board, and, like it or not, they’re going to tear the place up.”

“We’re alone, each one of us. That’s the ache of being human.” 

 August 2023
Goodreads Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

Inspired by Anne Frank’s “Book of Beautiful Sentences,” this series includes memorable passages from books I have read.