Father and Son

This picture touch'd my heart to the deepest.
This is how life should be. Loving and always caring.
The most beautiful time is not when you're in your teenage years,
but it is when you're old and there is someone out there to look after you.

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t
either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love.
You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk
your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are
broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit
by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— ~ Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)