Sunday Evening Sofa with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Desmond Tutu
On Real Things and Our Common Humanity
Welcome to the Sunday Evening Sofa - Two Quotes and One Question
(from the Small Stories about Big Things newsletter)
My hope? Maybe you can lean back onto your Sunday evening sofa with…
a bit more encouragement,
a bit more calm,
and a helpful thought or two sitting with your soul.
QUOTES
“The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder, in a letter to her children
"If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family."
- Desmond Tutu
QUESTION
When has someone very different than yourself helped you to believe that you belong?