Beautiful Boy
When Mary Oliver said;
“In those years I did everything I could do and I did it in the dark— I mean, without understanding.”
and when Marie Howe said;
“And I understood that if I kept it all up no one would know me.A dim light far in the distance? No.To love—I had to be there.I had to be there to be loved”
yeah… something about watching Nic’s father give up on him always makes me take a step back and think about things.