“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” — Albert Einstein
Once Upon A Time “The Heart of the Truest Believer”
Once Upon A Time Season 3 episode 1 The episode opens with “Eleven Years Ago” The clock on the wall ticks to 8:15, the time at which the clock stays stuck at in Storybrooke until Emma arrives there, 11 years later. Henry is born at 8:15 and Henry’s journey to find his birthmother drives the […]
Contraction
Life is a contraction. Ups, downs, holding patterns. Every birth is life, coming to fruition. Expect expansion of your experience level and contractions of your world, making it infinitely smaller and larger at once, focused on the ultimate in experience. -Shannon Mitchell
Processing
It’s Monday and I’m putting myself back together. It’s 1 pm and I’m finally beginning to come out of the birth fog. I got good sleep but it takes a bit to process out. I write a short thing every time about what I could have learned. It is always humbling but there is always […]
Abduction of a Sabine Woman
I will not pretend the source material isn’t rather historically distasteful (Taking of the Sabine Women) but the form of the humans depicted here is astounding. What I find fascinating is the very mistaken idea of the prevalence of nudity in past cultures or in expression of nudity in life. Western civilization has developed more […]
Inherent Safety
“I talked particularly about my feeling that birth is not the dangerous thing that it is set out to be. That, in fact, it is inherently safe and I believe biology tells us this. One woman, one baby, that the baby can’t survive without the woman. It takes a long time to grow a human […]
Formational ecosystems
It is all the things we do to first time moms that traumatize them for the rest of their births. We have a fragile, formational ecosystem that we treat with impunity, then are surprised when they no longer trust or engage. -Shannon Mitchell
How?
You know, by this time two weeks from now you’ll be holding a brand new baby. I know you say you’re tired of the stress. What I’m going to ask you is: How did you want that baby to get here? What made it worth it to you to make the decisions that you made […]
The Kissing Booth (2018)
Inane teen comedy with requisite sexual context and little actual plot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bfS6seiLhk The idea of there even being a Kissing Booth these days…yeah, like that still happens. (Does it still happen, if so, I’m a bit worried…) So, beyond all that…the movie opens with two friends who were born on the same day and their mothers […]
Catharsis
Catharsis is good for the soul. It is confessions of fear, emotion, it is pouring out the pain of something that affects us. It needs to happen so that others are aware of problems. It is not activism, though it can sometimes drive it. Activism is being in motion, creating a working plan, figuring out […]