Birthing and Raising Kids
“It’s a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I’ve ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that’s what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit.” Why Read?
“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization—of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny.”
– The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
I Want to Have so Many Memories of You
“I want to remember…Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day.”
-The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
Angel Atop the Tree
“While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember.”
The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
Author Carew Papritz and The Legacy Letters, Featured in the Mankind Project International Journal
Author Carew Papritz and The Legacy Letters, Featured in the Mankind Project International Journal
“It’s a powerful story, full of wisdom, wonder, gratitude, and blessings.”
– Boysen Hodgson, Editor of the Mankind Project International Journal on The Legacy Letters by Carew Papritz
“It’s an important book for New Warriors, a book that speaks to our values as conscious men, and to the importance of taking action now to make sure that the important things we have to say are said.
– Barry Friedman, the Mankind International Journal on The Legacy Letters by Carew Papritz
For the complete interview with Carew Papritz and a review of The Legacy Letters:
http://mankindprojectjournal.org/2013/12/the-legacy-letters-powerful-lessons-for-living/