My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Josephine Hart
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My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity , which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature. My mother, my father’s wife, was the person who made me who I am today. Although she bore me, she was an heiress to the same ambition that drove my father. Her passion for ideas led her to read everything she could get her hands on, and that passion informed my own taste in books.

She gave me the gift of enthusiasm for ideas, and that gift has helped me lead a productive life. But most important, she is the reason I have always had the belief in myself necessary to seek out new ideas.

Source: The Reconstructionist

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