Things I Wish for My Daughter
As the day approaches (and has since arrived) that my daughter will officially enter the world, I've been thinking often of the life that I hope she finds here. I've spent a lot of time lately contemplating the loveliest pieces of my own life, and there are so many things I hope she gets to see and feel and find. I catch myself tucking away pieces that I hope to teach her, to give to her, and then too, scratching heavy mental lines through things that I pray she never has to live through, jotting notes of beautiful experiences I hope someday find her when she isn't even looking. In typical fashion, I thought I'd leave a paper trail here, so: Things I Wish for My Daughter I pray that she will find what good comfort stories can be. I hope the voices of characters who will grow to be her favorites ring between her ears, that she can hear them; I hope the places that exist between book pages, be they kingdoms, castles, beaches, forests, or the inside of a cloud, also ex...