If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning.… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
