I have a feeling that YPregnancyAndChildbirthM not only MV, but does, vastly.
Even from one to the next.
Welcome to the Hellmouth petting zoo.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Sep 12, 2009 5:33:08 pm PDT #8396 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
msbelle - Sep 12, 2009 5:39:55 pm PDT #8397 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
NILLY!!!!
WEDDING!!!
YAY!!!!
I got a lot done today. My back feels it. must sleep.
Amy - Sep 12, 2009 5:40:09 pm PDT #8398 of 30001
Because books.
I have a feeling that YPregnancyAndChildbirthM not only MV, but does, vastly.
For me, childbirth and parenthood are two pretty separate things. Each are momentous in their own way. And that's taking into account I was out for most of Jake's birth.
It would be awfully nice if something so cool didn't have to hurt like a motherfucker, though.
Kat - Sep 12, 2009 5:41:32 pm PDT #8399 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But there's also a constant awareness that it really is just one day, that it's not just one event after which you'll return to your everyday life, that there's a whole completely different, unimaginable life on the other side of it that needs at least as much thought and attention
This week my class was analyzing this quote from T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
It was interesting to watch them make the realization that with every new beginning something, by necessity, must end. One of them said, "what about childbirth? ideally nothing ends." And I laughed. I said, for parents, their lives end. And it begins again, but as something entirely different and entirely transformed.
Then we segued to Alpha and Omega.
erikaj - Sep 12, 2009 5:45:53 pm PDT #8400 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Of course, Nilly, any time you marry your partner-for-life is very lucky...I just remembered your fondness for 17s.(maybe that sort of thing is American superstition, though.)
brenda m - Sep 12, 2009 5:46:25 pm PDT #8401 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The best way from laguardia to anywhere is taxi, unfortunately.
Yay for the corporate AmEx then. We're spoiled in Chicago.
JZ - Sep 12, 2009 5:51:25 pm PDT #8402 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
And I laughed. I said, for parents, their lives end. And it begins again, but as something entirely different and entirely transformed.
Oh, God yes. That other person I was before parenthood is still here, but the life she lived? Transformed, or utterly gone. Maybe recoverable, eventually, when Matilda is older and more self-sufficient, but even so it will be radically different.
(I remember, so vividly, going to dinner at Helmand right before my water broke with Hec and a bunch of localistas and Aims, in town for a brief visit, and being acutely aware that this would likely be our very last grown-up outing together as a couple for a long, long time. And I'm still so tickled that that last outing was with Buffistas.)
Dana - Sep 12, 2009 5:53:07 pm PDT #8403 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dude, who's watching the U.S. Open? ita?
sarameg - Sep 12, 2009 5:54:45 pm PDT #8404 of 30001
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
I really love this quote. Probably would have ptui'd at it not long ago, out of resentment.
sarameg - Sep 12, 2009 5:56:45 pm PDT #8405 of 30001
JenP, if your are out there,you gonna be around tomorrow??