Soft Travel to Sacred Spaces

August 18, 2010

A friend who has had a rough couple of years sent me a mesmerizing birthday present:  Hard Travel to Sacred Places by Rudolph Wurlitzer.  My generous and thoughtful friend recently lost his wife, and the book is about a couple who had recently lost their son, traveling to sites sacred, profane, heartbreaking and ironic in […]

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Student Teaching Learning

August 11, 2010

“We can’t return we can only look behind From where we came, And go round and round and round In the circle game”  Joni Mitchell With “Sixteen springs and sixteen summers (nearly) gone now” I find myself living my own bit of circle game… When I was a kid in elementary and middle school (and […]

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Parents who don’t need help…

August 4, 2010

Standing at the register at Big Five, exchanging a bike pump, a sporty mom with glasses glided up behind a jaunty three-wheeled stroller, saying to her toddler, “The unicorn wants to stay on the shelf,” to which the adorable toddler’s face wrinkled into consternation at her mother’s obtuse understanding of unicorns and she cried out, […]

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Inception on the couch — interpreting collective dreams

July 28, 2010

Whatever brought you to these words today, please consider taking a moment to dedicate reading them to whatever it is that you want (health, wealth, success, love, happiness, your child or children’s well-being).  Setting an intention is a step toward elevating the mundane, which may be the lion’s share of what it takes to get […]

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“All I really want our love to do…

July 21, 2010

…is to bring out the best in me and you” Joni Mitchell “All I Want.” After declaring Please Give to be the best movie I’d seen this year, along comes another small movie with a big heart, The Kids Are All Right, to serve as a perfect west coast companion piece to Please Give’s New […]

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Bumbling toward consciousness

July 14, 2010

The other day I found myself hunched over the wet grass in front of my house carefully teasing out dead bees from tangled strands of green—hundreds of bees that had rained down in a grim circle.  I had nearly filled a large paper cup with them, working two plastic spoons that I’d grabbed as tools […]

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Uncling

July 7, 2010

While in the abstract I look forward to being a grandparent, in the meantime I find myself musing on the role of the uncle and an inkling about “uncling” in general. My brother recently visited with his middle child, and because we live far apart and have busy lives I only see my nephews in […]

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Meconium for a New Age

June 30, 2010

Images of the BP oil spill got me thinking about meconium—that first tarry poop that took alcohol wipes to get off my thumb in the wake of my first at-bat in the big leagues of diaper changing. I remember being fascinated by this tenacious stuff in the first days of parenthood, like I was being […]

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Triumph of the Will… to watch horror films

June 23, 2010

Welcome to Privilege of Parenting’s blog on the first of weekly rather than daily blogs in the service of both sanity and our collective children. To kick things off for this solar year, I could not be more thrilled than to introduce a guest blog from my thirteen-year-old son, Will (who besides being my kid, […]

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Full Circle Solstice

June 21, 2010

Well, happy summer solstice, again. Hello, again.  Good-bye, again. Go. Dog. Go, again. How can I begin to say what I really mean? How can I convey the love I feel for you, and for us and for our world? I may have failed to tame my ego, heal my narcissism and more fully place […]

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