Monday, January 30, 2012
Books Robert Leleux Reading Tonight at Parnassus Books
Posted by Steve Haruch on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM
It seems to me that, as a full-grown human, the only thing that really counts is showing up for the people you love. To my mind, there’s nothing as scary or as humbling or as fundamental as that. There’s that great Robert Hayden line about “love’s obscure and lonely offices.” And I really believe that changing a diaper or a surgical dressing is a radical act of love. If you can show up for those things, you can show up for anything. If you can change a diaper with love, then you can change the world. Caring for my grandmother clued me in on how shamefully inadequate I am as a person, but it also pointed me in the direction of everything that I think is really important.
Leleux will discuss the book at 6 p.m. tonight at Parnassus Books.
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