I think that we can’t go around measuring
our goodness by what we don’t do—by
what we deny ourselves, what we resist,
and who we exclude. I think we’ve got to measure goodness by what we embrace,
what we create, and who we include.
-Robert Nelson Jacobs
* I found this wisdom in Seth Godin’s The Thanksgiving Reader.
Image: Embrace by James Jordan via Flickr
Welcome! I am a lawyer turned freelance writer, essayist, and editor. On staff at Literary Mama and the co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal, The Sunlight Press, my essays and reported work have appeared in The Washington Post, The Lily, Saveur, Civil Eats, Brain, Child, ESPN and elsewhere. I am currently at work on a memoir on grief and culture and how it provides perspective on life’s ordinary graces. I invite you to appreciate the ordinary with me. I hope my daily practice of seeing the magic in the mundane helps you celebrate and find more of these moments in your life too. Read More
Lovely quote!