cultivating the beautiful ordinary by sharing our tales and our tables
Lovemaking is the sensual offer of goodness to our partner, but when we think of the word “lover,” it seems to immediately connote sex. What happens before and after sex often sets the parameters of what degree of pleasure will last after an orgasm. How little I understood the mystery of marriage during my first months of…
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I heard him wailing, as he ran down the street toward home. Him, looking for comfort and someone to notice his small-but-big pain; me, rolling my eyes a little with a sigh in my breath. Still, I ready my arms to wrap around his three-year-old body, and, as the door bursts open, all the cries…
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Invisibility. I have a love/hate relationship with that word.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. –Janis Joplin I spend my Saturday afternoons sitting on metal bleachers in a sweaty warehouse, watching my daughters practice gymnastics.
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I just heard a story about an 18 month old who woke from her nap and called out from her crib with joy filled expectancy, “see me, see me!”
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Eye need you. A play on words. An acknowledgement. A cry.
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