Kathryn Schulz

And if it were easy, we would all be monks and the monks would be better at being monks. It's incredibly difficult.

And if it were easy, we would all be monks and the monks would be better at being monks. It's incredibly difficult.

And they don't have kids, right, which are appropriately, I would never say a distraction. They are the essence. They are the thing we are meant to be paying the most attention to. And sometimes that attention is profound and existential. And sometimes it's like, you know, sweetheart, go put your underwear on. It's just like a lot of parenting is just pragmatics, right?

And they don't have kids, right, which are appropriately, I would never say a distraction. They are the essence. They are the thing we are meant to be paying the most attention to. And sometimes that attention is profound and existential. And sometimes it's like, you know, sweetheart, go put your underwear on. It's just like a lot of parenting is just pragmatics, right?

I don't know that we should aspire, or I suppose we should aspire to be in touch with the beauty and wonderful givenness of every moment. Aspiration does not actually have to be reality.

I don't know that we should aspire, or I suppose we should aspire to be in touch with the beauty and wonderful givenness of every moment. Aspiration does not actually have to be reality.

Like I think aspiring probably is why three and a half percent of the time we have the transcendent experience of like, here I am like curled up in bed with my daughter, reading her a bedtime story and nothing will ever be so profoundly sweet as this. And you feel it deep inside you and you know you will always retain it. And the other 97% of the time you won't.

Like I think aspiring probably is why three and a half percent of the time we have the transcendent experience of like, here I am like curled up in bed with my daughter, reading her a bedtime story and nothing will ever be so profoundly sweet as this. And you feel it deep inside you and you know you will always retain it. And the other 97% of the time you won't.

probably okay you know the amazing thing about these moments of awe at the universe at life at what we have is they are so potent you don't actually need that many of them so i don't think you can give up the goal of trying to have more of them or recognize them but i don't think we need that many of them to kind of sustain our souls

probably okay you know the amazing thing about these moments of awe at the universe at life at what we have is they are so potent you don't actually need that many of them so i don't think you can give up the goal of trying to have more of them or recognize them but i don't think we need that many of them to kind of sustain our souls

That's right.

That's right.

Oh, my gosh. I mean, everything in the most wonderful ways. And I found a particular hair tie that's got yellow daisies on it that my daughter loves that vanished for a month, and she's thrilled to come across it again. And I have found... resources of meaning and patience I had no idea existed prior to this. I mean, it is the whole scale of discovery.

Oh, my gosh. I mean, everything in the most wonderful ways. And I found a particular hair tie that's got yellow daisies on it that my daughter loves that vanished for a month, and she's thrilled to come across it again. And I have found... resources of meaning and patience I had no idea existed prior to this. I mean, it is the whole scale of discovery.

I think one thing I've found, well, first of all, just as like a basic reflection on parenting, I've never been so grateful for anything in my life. I was a little bit older when our first daughter was born. And to be honest, I had kind of given up on I don't want to say given up.

I think one thing I've found, well, first of all, just as like a basic reflection on parenting, I've never been so grateful for anything in my life. I was a little bit older when our first daughter was born. And to be honest, I had kind of given up on I don't want to say given up.

I had resigned myself to the possibility that I might never have children of my own and had sort of made a deep peace of the world is full of children who need love and who are a delight to me and I'm related to some of them and that is its own beauty and it can be sufficient if it has to be sufficient and that I did have children of my own and

I had resigned myself to the possibility that I might never have children of my own and had sort of made a deep peace of the world is full of children who need love and who are a delight to me and I'm related to some of them and that is its own beauty and it can be sufficient if it has to be sufficient and that I did have children of my own and

So much is written about all the things that are difficult about parenthood, and I am not going to sit here and diminish those things. But my overwhelming experience of parenting, it's just delight. I'll never forget when my first daughter was born, my partner and I had this moment. We were getting ready to leave the hospital, and we both were like, So we can just take her home.

So much is written about all the things that are difficult about parenthood, and I am not going to sit here and diminish those things. But my overwhelming experience of parenting, it's just delight. I'll never forget when my first daughter was born, my partner and I had this moment. We were getting ready to leave the hospital, and we both were like, So we can just take her home.