“A mother’s heart ever-opening to take in care and concern for the whole wide world. We have, in this infant, created a future beyond our own mortality into children’s children onto infinity”
Ugh. So good. And the bit about soufflé. I didn’t know I needed a reminder that I’m a good egg and a meandering reflection on the blood and bone and grit of motherhood, but I absolutely needed to read this.
Love this. I wish as a culture we could look more clearly at what our biology, as women, as men, does to us. I feel we press down these factors that rule our lives and pretend we're unaffected and above it all as "thinking beings." But this is just repression, and our solutions that come from it are incomplete. Meanwhile the unacknowledged realities bubble unchecked in the dark.
Love this eggy delight! This is my favorite kind of your writing. Squiggling in and out of metaphor and detail and science and story. I loved that Natalie Angier book, and yes, matresence. A word we still don’t speak of enough.
That means so much to hear this. It's the writing I love to do the most too, so More of This To Come For Sure. I lost my original somewhere, all marked up on that egg passage. I wonder what became of that. From our infamous Table of all good books...where we were born into our friendship.
This was good to read! I really like that Daniel Popper sculpture (there's that "pop" again!).
I am going to start using "planetary nebula ESO 456-67" as a euphemism for lady parts when appropriate.
ah POP, I didn't even catch that. omg we really need new better terms for lady parts. I love it. can shorten to ESO maybe in the heat of the moment...
Please don't ever stop being a middle schooler, at least with part of your brain!
Never!
“A mother’s heart ever-opening to take in care and concern for the whole wide world. We have, in this infant, created a future beyond our own mortality into children’s children onto infinity”
Ugh. So good. And the bit about soufflé. I didn’t know I needed a reminder that I’m a good egg and a meandering reflection on the blood and bone and grit of motherhood, but I absolutely needed to read this.
Thank you, all good eggs :)
Love this. I wish as a culture we could look more clearly at what our biology, as women, as men, does to us. I feel we press down these factors that rule our lives and pretend we're unaffected and above it all as "thinking beings." But this is just repression, and our solutions that come from it are incomplete. Meanwhile the unacknowledged realities bubble unchecked in the dark.
Older I get, the more I’m moving into my body. I agree, our whole culture needs to. And devices makes us more disembodied than ever.
Yay! I mean, we get this body, why not experience it? And 100% yes as far as devices.
Love this eggy delight! This is my favorite kind of your writing. Squiggling in and out of metaphor and detail and science and story. I loved that Natalie Angier book, and yes, matresence. A word we still don’t speak of enough.
That means so much to hear this. It's the writing I love to do the most too, so More of This To Come For Sure. I lost my original somewhere, all marked up on that egg passage. I wonder what became of that. From our infamous Table of all good books...where we were born into our friendship.