Sublime

worthiness mentors.

You do like this language of being a “maker” … as much or maybe more than being called an “artist.” And it’s just occurring to me that this language lends itself to the rest of us too. Being an artist is specialized, but making is something we all do, each in our own ways, including in our family lives.

Rather than viewing care work as characteristic of the noun “motherhood,” I now see it as the action of mothering, which includes anyone who is engaged in “the practice of creating, nurturing, affirming and supporting life.”

A teacher of students with special needs, Sara had observed that the children she worked with seemed better able to navigate their lives the more they knew about their family’s history.