Mothering, nurturing, has been the greatest gift, the hardest journey, they are all adults now, emotionally intelligent and mature in ways that I could have never imagined when I started this endeavor ( mostly because I had no idea how an adult that was raised with mutual respect and unconditional Love would be behave and be in this world!) proud is not really the right word, AWE feels more real, I am in awe of my children daily, their kindness, creativity and genuineness… I am so grateful for the opportunity, for the co parents and community that made parenting feel like a breeze most of the time ( with quite a few of exceptions, of course!) happy Mother’s Day!
I had the immense privilege of being a body worker at the conference for missing and murdered indigenous relatives a couple years ago, so intensely beautiful to hold space and bear witness to such deep grief…. #landback #nomorestolensisters
An interesting human phenomenon that I’ve witnessed more than once is that you can be partnered with someone or know someone for decades and still sometimes feel that you don’t know them at all….photos from “We need to talk” by Natalie Brewster Nguyen presently at MOCA @mocatucson
My sweetheart likes to remind me often that Empathy without boundaries is self destruction…. While I agree, how could I put a boundary up when my kid calls me last evening just as I was about to deeply relax with comfort food and a movie about this sick cat covered with flies…. I didn’t even need to trap it, I put a can of sardines out and it ate hungrily while I covered it in a sheet and swaddled it, it was absolutely starving to death and weighs less than half a pound, covered in matted fur and its own shit… presently it is waiting for a vet appointment tomorrow afternoon in my bathroom, while I can’t really adopt it I am hoping that with some medical care It can be adopted out… I sat with it for a few hours last night, it let me pet it, and actually purred which made me burst into tears, I often wonder how my tender heart survives here… if any of my friends or Internet friends are interested in fostering or adopting please reach out… I’m calling it Robby after Robert Monroe
Hiking date with my favorite person ( me ) burned some daylight watching water bugs, petroglyphs, the Catalina’s from a sweet hotel room, baby freaking owls! the best pancakes I’ve ever eaten, sourdough with peach compote at Augustin Kitchen…. This week has been grand….
