Quotation of the Day, June 10, 2022

“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – Dinah Craik, nineteenth-century English poet and novelist. Sent by Sylvia Aust of Rochester, NY, to Frank Bruni, who highlighted it in his NYT newsletter. This is not the reaction one can count on when one blasts out a tweet to thousands of followers.