et cum spirit 220

you never know what you have in a child, what is yours, what is god's; what is learned, what is the world's gift. you may look on a familiar countenance, observe a common gait, admire a trait you do or don't possess. or a weakness, for all that. what is your gift? what is the world's? the only certainty is that the child does not belong to you. she is of the wide world, consubstantial with the wind, the breath of god.