http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/ Children's Book Author Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/#comment-4736 sashwee Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:21:12 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/#comment-4736 I'm about to gush. I've been reading your other blog for a little while, and today clicked over to this one for a look. These first two posts, the one of things to remember and this poem have really touched my heart. I'm a new mom, and I'm struggling so. I have a lovely, very easy baby, I don't have any big challenges in life, just the sort that crawl out from the gloomy recesses of ones being and send one shying away until one finally one day sees they are just shadows. And still.. I am everyday amazed at what it takes to bring a new person in to the world. Amazed that this is ordinary life, not some emergency that everyone else should stop and help me with, but something that some woman has done for so many billion people. Your strength, courage and happy spirit have inspired me today with a vision of the kind of mom I want, and hope that I can, be. And have also given me a glimpse of how the mom role, as central and important as it is, can take its place among the other elements of a whole, thinking, doing person. Thank you. I’m about to gush. I’ve been reading your other blog for a little while, and today clicked over to this one for a look. These first two posts, the one of things to remember and this poem have really touched my heart. I’m a new mom, and I’m struggling so. I have a lovely, very easy baby, I don’t have any big challenges in life, just the sort that crawl out from the gloomy recesses of ones being and send one shying away until one finally one day sees they are just shadows. And still.. I am everyday amazed at what it takes to bring a new person in to the world. Amazed that this is ordinary life, not some emergency that everyone else should stop and help me with, but something that some woman has done for so many billion people.
Your strength, courage and happy spirit have inspired me today with a vision of the kind of mom I want, and hope that I can, be. And have also given me a glimpse of how the mom role, as central and important as it is, can take its place among the other elements of a whole, thinking, doing person. Thank you.

]]> http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/#comment-4735 MelanieB Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:05:59 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/#comment-4735 Lovely. My mom tells me she read Leaves of Grass to me while I was still in utero. Which seems like a sort of Whitmanesque thing to do. Lovely.
My mom tells me she read Leaves of Grass to me while I was still in utero. Which seems like a sort of Whitmanesque thing to do.

]]> http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/#comment-4734 Love2learn Mom Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:54:44 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/07/06/poetry-friday-what-is-the-grass/#comment-4734 If you haven't seen it already, you might like to take a peek at Dr. Thursday's <a href="http://americanchestertonsociety.blogspot.com/2007/07/dr-thursdays-thursday-post.html" rel="nofollow">"Thursday Post"</a> on the ACS Blog which happens to be about G.K. Chesterton and Walt Whitmann. If you haven’t seen it already, you might like to take a peek at Dr. Thursday’s “Thursday Post” on the ACS Blog which happens to be about G.K. Chesterton and Walt Whitmann.

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