Daily Reflections - Roots

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" A new voice arrives, the fourth woman among our thinkers, who wrote under a man's name and gave the quiet, unnoticed life its due: George Eliot. Ten lessons on the acts no one records, on the person across from you who is also a centre, on starting late and starting anyway, and on why the tea still gets made on the worst morning of your life. The growing good of the world has always depended on hidden lives. Yours counts. It always did.