To my son, on a hard night

I guess it's not really writing when you just quote someone else's writing, but she says it so well.

...."If you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old [wo]man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you." - Marianne Robinson, "Gilead". You're right, it is a good book.