On Parents

“The stamp of our parents on us and of the past in general is, to my mind, overworked, since at some point we are whole and by ourselves upon the earth, and there is nothing that can change that for better or worse, and so we might as well think about something more promising. I was born into an ordinary, modern existence in 1945, an only child to decent parents of no irregular point of view, no particular sense of their place in history’s continuum, just two people afloat in the world and expectant like most others in time, without a daunting conviction about their own consequence. This seems like a fine lineage to me still.”  

From “The Sportswriter” by Richard Ford; Photo by Daiga Ellaby (daiga_ellaby) 

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