Marilynne Robinson on domesticity

I am pulling this a wee bit out of context, but I liked this little snippet from Marilynne Robinson. One for the stay-at-home Mums.

At a certain level housekeeping is a regime of small kindnesses, which, taken together, make the world salubrious, savory, and warm. I think of the acts of comfort offered and received within a household as precisely sacramental. It is the sad tendency of domesticity – as of piety – to contract and of grace to decay into rigor and peace into tedium.

~Marilynne Robinson

When I Was a Child

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