Children on the beach just minutes from our worksite; their families took us in and made a place for us in their world. It changed everything for us. Everything.
So much we'd never have known, and it was more fun than staying in our own little world. It was the chance of a lifetime to be sent to such places; an unusual blessing.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime, the author says. Probably true, probably true.