Context for “Seen and known”

Feb 22

Context for “Seen and known”

Yesterday I wrote the post about our pottery-painting-on-a-school-night and it was a wonderful story to tell that is so authentic to the best version of my mom self, and a testimony to Greta’s greatness. It was a hard won shining moment. A couple of things struck me that I did not point out in the story that would have made for more authentic context…...

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Seen and known

Feb 21

Seen and known

Greta is going through a maturity spurt these days. She is having lots of thoughts and feelings and she is generally quick to share them even if she doesn’t have the right right words. Yesterday afternoon I got very woozy right when she came in off the bus, so I had to take a nap. (A disappointing moment for both of us.) I set her up with an art project, a...

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