I had lived in this body for a year and a half when everything changed. By then I could speak in complete and grammatical sentences with proper pronunciation and inflection. I could stand but not crawl or walk. My father was practically unknown to me, a shadowy figure to fear, but Mother taught me and […]
“The child mind is the greatest mind because its innocence is its best and sure defense, because it is not surrounded by crowding concepts and because it is free to develop symmetry, color, sound, light and new ideas. In short, it is free to create, and its supreme goal is to spread happiness in all
I was never allowed to cry. There was no reason under the sun sufficient to justify me crying. If I fell and scraped my knee, I was not to cry. If my mother had just backhanded me as her instant and frequent response to some infraction on my part, I still must not cry. Mother’s
