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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted in babies, birth art, family, fathers, mothers, Neat stuff, parenting, personal on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Blessed be all mothers. Blessed be all the mothers of mothers. Blessed be all the daughters of mothers. Blessed be all the children of mothers. Now, and forever. Amen. –WATER (Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual) Happy Mother’s Day! I keep feeling like making some big, philosophical, insightful post today and I also keep [...]

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3-D Journaling

Posted in birth art, friends, self-care, spirituality, women on April 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

After writing my recent post about the resuming of my cycle post-baby, I felt the urge to add a new figure to my ongoing birth art series of polymer clay goddess sculptures. I am the only person I know of who has done a series of sculptures like this and it feels like it is [...]

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A Virtual Mother Blessing for Molly Westerman!

Posted in birth, birth art, Birth Thoughts, friends, giving birth, homebirth, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »

In 2007, I started blogging for Citizens for Midwifery and one of my favorite blogs was a little gem then called Feminist Childbirth Studies. The blog’s author, Molly Westerman, later became more public with her blogging identity and began writing her current blog, First the Egg, a feminist resource on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I [...]

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Toddler Birth Art

Posted in babies, birth, birth art, family, mothers, personal, sons on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As I look at these drawings by my older son at ages 2.5 and 3.5, I feel quite a pang. This time has passed. He is eight now. He hasn’t drawn a picture like this in years. I didn’t fully realize at the time that he was drawing them that it was a one shot [...]

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Guardian of the Womb

Posted in birth art, miscarriage, personal, pregnancy loss, spirituality on February 7, 2012 | 7 Comments »

While I experienced my first miscarriage-birth as a powerfully transformative experience, my second miscarriage in 2010 was a terrible blow that brought me into a very dark and distressed place. I still have never managed to write much about this, even in my miscarriage blog/book. Following the second loss, I started reading a really wonderful [...]

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Child’s birth art

Posted in birth art, family, mothers on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As I continue to embark on decluttering projects during my Facebook retreat, I found this awesome little drawing saved in one of my notebooks. I think it was drawn by my older son when he was about three: I love her smiling face and that birth was/is such a normal thing to him. I have [...]

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Elemental Polymer Clay Goddesses

Posted in birth art, off topic, self-care, spirituality on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Several months ago when I was experimenting with polymer clay goddess pendants, I also made four sculptures symbolizing earth, air, water, and fire. I used gemstones for the belly of each figure. (I’ve not used stones in any sculptures after these, because I don’t know that the mixed media quite works in the manner in [...]

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Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!

Posted in babies, birth art, Birth Thoughts, family, mothers, personal, women on January 18, 2012 | 19 Comments »

“Our lives can sometimes feel like passages through harsh landscapes that shake us to our core. Yet these difficult passages bring us to our most profound transformations. In the midst of heartache and greatest need, we find that grace descends. And at the end of it all, we often discover that we have become someone [...]

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Yarn Goddess

Posted in birth art, family, mothers, Neat stuff, personal, pictures on January 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I made sweeping promises about all of the fabulous posts I was going to write over my break and apparently I only had ONE in me. I find a good blog post really takes a minimum of three hours to write and that is after having the idea, taking notes, collecting links, etc. Someday I [...]

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Year End Wordle

Posted in birth, birth art, childbirth educators, personal on January 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »

I’m working on a 2011 year-end summary post and it is taking me longer to do than I anticipated. So, for now, a delightful year-end Wordle image instead. I just love these! So much fun to see what you’ve been talking about for a year. It was important to me that the Wordle represent my [...]

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