Will Schwalbe

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The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention

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If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us

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It’s cruelty that gets to me. Still, it’s important to read about cruelty.“Why is it important?

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And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read

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One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: "This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, what is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?