A life's work

When your child becomes the reason for your life, you have abandoned the invisible reason you are here. And the reason you are here as an adult, as a citizen, as a parent? To make a world receptive to the daimon. To set the civilization straight so that a child can grow down into it and its daimon can have a life. This is the parenting task. To car

Questions for Reflection for Losing Ourselves 1.When have you felt disconnected from yourself? From your children? What is this like for you when you feel this way? 2.The fairy tale in this chapter begins when the king becomes lost in the forest and is therefore susceptible to the witch’s ploy to get him to marry her daughter. Where in your life ha

This baby’s life would rely on my maternity leave, my savings, my body, my career. I would have to make all the sacrifice while Andy’s life could continue mostly as normal. He disingenuously offered to give up comedy and be a stay-at-home dad. We both knew that would never happen.

I wanted through motherhood to give myself another try at existing. I thought it might ease my fear of my own disappearance from the world, of my being an endling.