Tag: Parenting
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Please stop interrup —
Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The fierce urgency of [unintelligible] My mother often interrupted me while I was talking to tell me not to interrupt others while they were talking. Once I boldly responded that she had, in fact, interrupted me to tell me that. But only once, because my mother was not to be…
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From My 40 to Your 14
Photo by Ian Keefe on Unsplash reluctant poem for my daughter We are both fourteen, and alsogoing-on-forty-or-more:Both of woman-mind and soul,yet nested still in girls’ wild ways. At fourteen, life is awful promise; nothing certainnothing known.But still she is/we are the sumof all, for best or worse.With womankind, it’s hard to tellthe promise from the curse. At fourteen,…
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Truths of a Cosmic Mom
Photo by 🐣 Luca Iaconelli 🦊 on Unsplash I get it now… My mother was not like other mothers. Looking back, I can see that she was actually living in a cosmic sphere that only casually intersected with our suburban life. And the cryptic sayings she imparted, that sounded so ordinary, held uncommon wisdom. To look at…
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A rude and wild internal child
A few years back, it was popular to speak of “re-parenting” oneself; of getting in touch with your “inner child” and working through exercises of forgiveness and self-understanding. I got in touch with my inner child once. I immediately sent her to her room. I’m being deliberately flip to mask a serious subject, because even though I’ve…
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