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> [“I don't wish for the red house back, not really, yet in a way, I wish for everything back that ever was, everything that once seemed like forever and yet has vanished . . . Standing here on an empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-don-t-wish-for-the-red-house-back-not-really-yet-in-a-way-i-wish/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

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## More by Katrina Kenison

> [I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-take-the-seashell-from-my-jeans-pocket-and-rub-my-fingers-across/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [“I don't wish for the red house back, not really, yet in a way, I wish for everything back that ever was, everything that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-don-t-wish-for-the-red-house-back-not-really-yet-in-a-way-i-wish/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [“If some essential part of me was already disappearing as my children moved into increasingly wider orbits, well then, I wanted to rech out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/if-some-essential-part-of-me-was-already-disappearing-as-my-children/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/we-can-learn-to-trust-our-maternal-selves-and-to-have-faith-in-the/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/now-i-see-that-the-journey-was-never-meant-to-lead-to-some-new-and/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [“This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/this-i-suspect-is-the-territory-that-lies-just-ahead-and-around-the/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/alone-in-moments-of-prayer-or-meditation-or-simply-in-stillness-we/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-know-i-can-t-make-time-slow-down-can-t-hold-our-life-as-it-is-in-a/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/as-i-loosen-my-grip-on-the-past-as-i-keep-taking-one-small-step-after/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/we-are-the-windows-through-which-our-children-first-see-the-world-let/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/it-has-taken-awhile-but-i-certainly-do-know-it-now-the-most-wonderful/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/magic-wasn-t-something-i-had-to-go-in-search-of-it-was-here-within-me/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [“Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/stay-focused-on-what-is-beautiful-and-abundant-even-as-illness-carves/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/i-can-only-bring-peace-to-my-children-when-i-possess-it-myself/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

> [“When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrina-kenison/when-we-focus-on-what-is-good-and-beautiful-in-someone-whether-or-not/)

[Katrina Kenison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katrina-kenison/)

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