The Shelter of Each Other
As I headed out for something to eat, I pickup a book I’ve meant to read for some time…. Titled The Shelter of Each Other by Mary Pipher. Its ten years old but the topic is current.
Her family story is similar to mine, folks having grown up in farm communities then raising kids in the new world of suburbs and not knowing the neighbors.
Actually, while I grew up, we knew the neighbors, but then…
more on where this goes later…. Safe to say her phrase “Thirsty in the Rain” is a key turning point in perspective. And her linking family to the Sioux word, tiospaye, is key. It is the bridge to the families all kids need to know to grow up well and alive to possibility.
tiospaye means the people with whom one lives… and means more than a nuclear family.
