Comments on: Songs of Innocence and Experience

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:07:00 +0000

Catching up after just finding this blog today. I tried to articulate these very thoughts a few months ago but was nowhere near eloquent. So thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your beautiful ability to write. With each of my twin boys’ new achievements I find joy, but I also feel them pulling away and know that this is one of the pains of motherhood. Thank you again for creating the imagery of how it feels.

By: Jenifer

Jenifer — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:55:00 +0000

HBM....

How dare you...

My daughter just turned 3 yesterday and boy did you just make me cry.

In a good way though. Your writing never ceases to amaze me.

By: mo-wo

mo-wo — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:22:00 +0000

When I began.. I was too lucky to have 3 or 4 good souls told me that it was in me in more ways than one.

But not one told me I could be replaced by what came after. I feel you capture the ethereal moroseness of it all. For me, I'll say. The very notion that I am completed as a being that their existence and persistence more than fills the hole I have dug out for myself. The nothing of my being remains necessary but where it might grow them a bit more -- like it did at womb-stage.

Gawd that makes my everything else completely superfluous? Superficial?

I need a drink.

By: Nora H.

Nora H. — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:33:00 +0000

Lovely.

By: Her Bad Mother

Her Bad Mother — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:11:00 +0000

Ozma – that’s it exactly. They almost never encourage you to give yourself over to the biological inevitabilities of the whole process. They perpetuate the idea that we *can* think our ways through this. Which we can’t. We just can’t.

By: Indigo Children

Indigo Children — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:24:00 +0000

That hurts to read. Thanks for giving words to a complex truth.

By: Ruth Dynamite

Ruth Dynamite — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:10:00 +0000

A masterpiece, Catherine. Once again, you’ve spoken the truth with piercing eloquence.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:17:00 +0000

oh catherine this is what we must do …it is the most heartwrenching and yet gives us pride as mothers in a job well done when we let go…LAVENDULA

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:08:00 +0000

You just gave me goosebumps.

Beautiful post.

By: ozma

ozma — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:02:00 +0000

One thing I found amusing about the pregnancy process was that I refused to think of myself as a biological creature. And pregnancy books encourage that–they give you this illusion of control. It was only later when I saw the absurdity of that.

Getting older has biologized me more…I think when I was younger I could be more in denial about the plain facts.

Oh, the weaning. This will ever be bittersweet.