...that when you spend time helping the truly broken—the ones who require more patience than seems reasonable—you walk away with two revelations: how much of yourself still works, and how vital the fragile thread of kindness is that holds people together.
More and more I understand wanting to go on a bender Get away from it all Away from all the stuff that needs to be dealt with All the petty, mundane, routine, inconvenient, never-ending, time-consuming minutia of daily life
...that when you spend time helping the truly broken—the ones who require more patience than seems reasonable—you walk away with two revelations: how much of yourself still works, and how vital the fragile thread of kindness is that holds people together.