Many years ago, when my children were very little I had an enormous kitchen garden. It is a great trick to get small children to eat vegetables, if they grow them so they will eat! It is also a great way to learn about biodiversity, life cycles, nature and oneself. In the early fall we…
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I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the experience of parenting, about children and the growing up they do while we are busy parenting them, and about the growing up we do as parents during that time, and all the time really. There is a very rapid growing up that happens for about…
To say that love is complicated seems like an almost ridiculous understatement. We can look at the definition and assess our relationships against that defined criteria, and yet there remains an intangible element that exists only as a feeling. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it isn’t, our “love” for one person is different than our “love”…