Comments on: my wow. http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/ words thru a woman.mama Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Jeanette http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1062 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:05:02 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1062 I was thinking of you so strongly tonight, wanting to read what I wrote for you when you left arizona, and what you wrote for me way back when to feel some sort of distance connection - and then I see this. I have not been on anyone's blog in weeks, and so I missed this, and when we talked the other day (finally! oh - what joy it was to hear your earthy, sexy, filled with life and love and reality voice) I didn't know you were here in this space and I so wish I had. I can do nothing but hold space, the way you have done for me so often in the past - but I hold it now with love and reverence and respect for the rawness of your journey. I was thinking of you so strongly tonight, wanting to read what I wrote for you when you left arizona, and what you wrote for me way back when to feel some sort of distance connection - and then I see this. I have not been on anyone’s blog in weeks, and so I missed this, and when we talked the other day (finally! oh - what joy it was to hear your earthy, sexy, filled with life and love and reality voice) I didn’t know you were here in this space and I so wish I had. I can do nothing but hold space, the way you have done for me so often in the past - but I hold it now with love and reverence and respect for the rawness of your journey.

]]> by: Mae http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1061 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:34:49 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1061 Jamye Waxman suggested I contact you about a Sexy Mama blog even Babeland is putting on through the month of May. Please email at mae@babeland.com for more details. thanks, Mae Jamye Waxman suggested I contact you about a Sexy Mama blog even Babeland is putting on through the month of May. Please email at mae@babeland.com for more details.

thanks,
Mae

]]> by: crystine http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1060 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:32:39 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1060 I have been thinking about your words since I read them..I have been feeling them really because I have been there, am there and will be there again. In the midst of all that churning I hold tight to my pen and keep my legs moving through bright green forests surronded by the wild ocean. But what helps the most is reading and talking to other Mamas who are not afraid to let it out and thereby enable me to feel less a failure and more a family surronded by the loving hands of all those who came before me, are in it w/me now, and who will jon me later. This sharing is where it is at. Because in the midst of all the crazy, sorrowful agony life can be I yearn for arms to hold me tight as I hold them tightly, holding one another up.. I have been thinking about your words since I read them..I have been feeling them really because I have been there, am there and will be there again. In the midst of all that churning I hold tight to my pen and keep my legs moving through bright green forests surronded by the wild ocean.
But what helps the most is reading and talking to other Mamas who are not afraid to let it out and thereby enable me to feel less a failure and more a family surronded by the loving hands of all those who came before me, are in it w/me now, and who will jon me later.
This sharing is where it is at.
Because in the midst of all the crazy, sorrowful agony life can be I yearn for arms to hold me tight as I hold them tightly, holding one another up..

]]> by: norea http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1059 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:02:39 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1059 'But as I step up and out, feel life at some surface, I am beginning to think this depression I came face to face with may be the greatest teacher I’ve ever had. Ever. And isn’t that kind of beautiful?' I love that!!! I believe everything we encounter in life holds a lesson for us. It is in moments of deep darkness that we are most open to these lessons. At the deepest point of my depression, I awakened to a new sense of life. Life has never been the same. If you are open to Life, you'll meet the greatest teacher. Blessed are you! ‘But as I step up and out, feel life at some surface, I am beginning to think this depression I came face to face with may be the greatest teacher I’ve ever had. Ever. And isn’t that kind of beautiful?’
I love that!!! I believe everything we encounter in life holds a lesson for us. It is in moments of deep darkness that we are most open to these lessons. At the deepest point of my depression, I awakened to a new sense of life. Life has never been the same. If you are open to Life, you’ll meet the greatest teacher. Blessed are you!

]]> by: Must Be Motherhood http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1058 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:13:35 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1058 Thank you for this. Thank you for this.

]]> by: bella http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1057 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:40:03 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1057 its so strange. mother are not "supposed" to experience this and so it is not spoken of, tended to, prepared for while pregnant. And yet it happens. a lot. And it makes no distinction between women, could give a shit if you ate the right foods or said your prayers. I see your rawness right now, that fragile sense of coming through, feeling perhaps it has lifted, not wanting to rush forward for fear it is only a momentary pause and will return. I'm here, holding this space, saying it is ok to be where you are. not fun, not easy, not pretty. But it is ok. You are enough. I love you and will see yous soon. its so strange.
mother are not “supposed” to experience this and so it is not spoken of, tended to, prepared for while pregnant. And yet it happens. a lot. And it makes no distinction between women, could give a shit if you ate the right foods or said your prayers.
I see your rawness right now, that fragile sense of coming through, feeling perhaps it has lifted, not wanting to rush forward for fear it is only a momentary pause and will return.
I’m here, holding this space, saying it is ok to be where you are. not fun, not easy, not pretty. But it is ok. You are enough.
I love you and will see yous soon.

]]> by: Courtney Alban http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1055 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:15:05 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1055 It's always hard to follow a comment from Karen, especially on that says so much in so few words. Know that I know you, the you that you ARE, even if not always. Did you know that planes on autopilot are only traveling in the correct direction something like 5% of the time, and the other 95% of hte time, they are going too far left, and then too far right. But they are always on target. What's important is not that they are missing the mark most of the time, what is important is the internal mechanism designed to self-correct. Something like that. I'm a little tired for eloguence, but a yoga teacher talked about this once and it struck a chord. Love you. It’s always hard to follow a comment from Karen, especially on that says so much in so few words. Know that I know you, the you that you ARE, even if not always. Did you know that planes on autopilot are only traveling in the correct direction something like 5% of the time, and the other 95% of hte time, they are going too far left, and then too far right. But they are always on target. What’s important is not that they are missing the mark most of the time, what is important is the internal mechanism designed to self-correct. Something like that. I’m a little tired for eloguence, but a yoga teacher talked about this once and it struck a chord. Love you.

]]> by: Karen Maezen Miller http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1053 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:15:07 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1053 No words. Travelers through know how profound the silence is. No words. Travelers through know how profound the silence is.

]]> by: AbsintheDC http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1052 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:48:18 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1052 You are amazing for writing this so candidly and eloquently. It expresses so well how raw it feels. I am 2 years post Baby #2 and know how suffocating and oppressive these kinds of desolate feelings are. This, I think, is a larger part of the universal experience of motherhood than a lot of people can make sense of. But it is so very real. We are all a bit cracked in some way by the scope of this mothering thing we are doing...thank you for giving it honest words here. Keep going strong. You are amazing for writing this so candidly and eloquently. It expresses so well how raw it feels. I am 2 years post Baby #2 and know how suffocating and oppressive these kinds of desolate feelings are. This, I think, is a larger part of the universal experience of motherhood than a lot of people can make sense of. But it is so very real. We are all a bit cracked in some way by the scope of this mothering thing we are doing…thank you for giving it honest words here. Keep going strong.

]]> by: meremortal http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1051 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:08:22 +0100 http://misplacedmama.blogsome.com/2008/04/11/313/#comment-1051 keep speaking your truth and living your truth in only the way you know how: brilliantly and honestly. you know i love you and your beautiful family. xoxo keep speaking your truth and living your truth in only the way you know how: brilliantly and honestly.
you know i love you and your beautiful family.
xoxo

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