I don't have a baby yet and I also cried! That Wendell Berry poem really got me. I am there.
Amy, your writing is maybe my favorite on Substack. When I get a notification of a new piece of yours in my inbox, I go read it right then. I so appreciate your honesty. You are candid, but accepting of your reality. Thank you thank you thank you.
Tears welled up and spilled over at the “holy impediment” section. Love this experience for you, so much. I was a musical theater kid and had many a cathartic vulnerable moment among teachers and friends. The idea of being witnessed as a mother in that space, after being a pandemic mom too and not even realizing how unseen I really was, touches me deeply. Thank you so much for sharing and so glad you and Ben got to do this!
Yes! I hadn't even really connected that piece, that we did so much mothering completely unwitnessed during the pandemic. It is taking me a while to realize that I can be places other than my house, so it was so wild to suddenly be somewhere so special to me as a mom! I'm sure others have that experience earlier!
I feel this so much when trying to move through adult spaces with my children. Highly visible and vulnerable, a potential spectacle, and exhausted. And quietly though fiercely protective. Holy impediment indeed!
I don't have a baby yet and I also cried! That Wendell Berry poem really got me. I am there.
Amy, your writing is maybe my favorite on Substack. When I get a notification of a new piece of yours in my inbox, I go read it right then. I so appreciate your honesty. You are candid, but accepting of your reality. Thank you thank you thank you.
Oh my goodness, that means so much to me Brittany! Thank you very much for reading and resonating and encouraging me.
Tears welled up and spilled over at the “holy impediment” section. Love this experience for you, so much. I was a musical theater kid and had many a cathartic vulnerable moment among teachers and friends. The idea of being witnessed as a mother in that space, after being a pandemic mom too and not even realizing how unseen I really was, touches me deeply. Thank you so much for sharing and so glad you and Ben got to do this!
Yes! I hadn't even really connected that piece, that we did so much mothering completely unwitnessed during the pandemic. It is taking me a while to realize that I can be places other than my house, so it was so wild to suddenly be somewhere so special to me as a mom! I'm sure others have that experience earlier!
Tearing up reading this, Amy. Needed these words today! Hooray to holy impediments!
Crying soooo much actually
Oh man what would I do right now without your writing? I feel so much of this!
I feel this so much when trying to move through adult spaces with my children. Highly visible and vulnerable, a potential spectacle, and exhausted. And quietly though fiercely protective. Holy impediment indeed!