Movement Is Life
“Without movement life is unthinkable.” “What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible brains. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.” “If you know what you are doing, you can do what you want.” “…To make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant.” — Moshé Feldenkrais On [...]
Earth Sanctuary
Two moms, three kids (ages 8, 5, and 5 months) pile into a car on a cloudy Seattle day and drive north out of the city to one of the many ferry docks, where we watch the ferry we just missed sail away and settle in to wait… We eat, pee, change diapers, nurse, rearrange, [...]
Truly
As I lay sandwiched between two young boys — my sons — Mica flung his arms around my head and whispered with sweet urgency, “I truly, truly love you, Mama.” And then, in case I hadn’t gotten it, “Truly, truly, truly, truly, truly I love you.” How can I argue with that? But it’s true: [...]
Medicine
I kept saying, “The last six months or so,” or “Something switched in the spring.” Or “I’ve been having a hard time.” First I thought it was just the busyness of redesigning my website. Then I thought it was the change in the weather, and the growing pains of parenting in a fishbowl. I wondered [...]
Now at 8
Our bedtimes totally unraveled earlier this year. What seemed to have become a pretty straight-forward Brush Teeth and Get in Bed for a Story with Papa turned into mayhem, with Papa snoring in bed as two kids prowled the house searching for Mama, who was hiding out with a book. It was late, and I [...]
Till the water is clear
When the inspiration struck me to write about the lessons my children have taught me, it was the middle of the night. I scrambled around for a piece of paper and at least a dozen ideas, one sentence each, came tumbling out. One of them was “how to take responsibility for my own experience,” and [...]
The Oak Tree
I’ve been thinking about being an Oak Tree. Because lately it seems like I’ve been some sort of squat, prickly bush. The move went so exceptionally well, though I fear that through the distraction and stress of buying a house, moving a house, and selling a house, I’ve slipped into reactive-land and am acting ever [...]
Witness
Mica was really tired, too tired, really, and nothing was right. He didn’t want to brush his teeth, he didn’t want the toothpaste (the only kind we have, have ever had), and the water was too cold. He didn’t want to put on his pajamas or his night-time diaper. We eventually arrived at a solution [...]
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