Sunday, March 25, 2007

Post of the week...

If you don't know her already, let me introduce to you a fabulous blogger, mental tesserae, via one of my favorite posts ever, lather and rinse. It is a rare gift indeed when someone can sum up almost two decades of one of your most deeply personal internal confllicts and its ongoing resolution in a single post.

11 comments:

Special K ~Toni said...

That really makes you stop and think, doesn't it? Always in hurry, never stopping to enjoy the 'small' joys we get from our children!

Carrot Jello said...

Thanks for sharing that. I liked it.

Kimberly Vanderhorst said...

I linked to that in my last post as well, and it gave me a smile that you had done the same.

I think the blogging community should get together and invent an award for her.

Elizabeth-W said...

Very nice.
(If only there were a beautiful painting of a woman trying to read a blog, being attacked by a three year old, and the loving mother is caught in the very moment of rejecting her internet world, and loving the baby with zero wistfulness/ambivalence.)

Jennifer B. said...

Thanks for the link CW. I loved it.

elizabeth w--your comment choked me with laughter. I NEED someone to paint that so I can hang it above my computer!

Geo said...

Thanks, c-dub.

I don't know how I'm ever going to keep up with all the amazing people (mostly women) I am being introduced to as a reader, but I must keep trying! The ripple effect here in Bloggywood is overwhelming, but very satisfying.

Amazing, this cyber thing. How else would I have ever found you, fer instance?

Julie Q. said...

Thanks for the compliment.

Truthfully, I hate myself for feeling at all resentful of my (wonderful!) children so I hesitated to publish that post. It seems to have struck a chord so I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way sometimes. Just writing about it tweaked my own perspective a bit. I haven't written much on my blog in the past few days because I'm spending more time just BEING with my kids.

dalene said...

Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.

I am less crazy because of blogging--I know now I'm not the only one. And, as I believe our relationships with others--family and friends--are something we take with us into the next life, I am grateful for the friends I've made who share my burdens and my joys.

I think perhaps two of the biggest challenges modern women have are being conflicted between many gooc choices and finding balance.

dalene said...

The third challenge would be typos.


Of course I meant good choices!

elasticwaistbandlady said...

I went. I saw. I commented. I have thusly fulfilled my blogger duties!

dalene said...

I really LOVE that poor kitty!