A Secret
*Most days I don't feel it . . . the urgent desire to have a child of my own. For some reason, today is one of those days. Maybe it's because I keep picturing my friend EML with her baby girl on this Women's Equality Day. Maybe it is because I am loving my new job that surrounds me with fabulous and complicated teenage girls. This morning on her Facebook page EML wrote, "I've been singing to J all morning and whispering secrets to her about what life is like! I picked her up and danced with her singing, "Our daughters' daughters' will adore us. And they'll sing in grateful chorus, well done, Sister Suffragette!"I want to whisper secrets to my children about what life is like. I want to watch them roll their eyes as I make popcorn and require them to watch Iron Jawed Angels every year on August 26. I want to be a parent.
For now I am a parent to about 26,000 projects in my mind and one big research paper. It's hard to whisper secrets to those so if you don't mind, I will tell you one. No one is better than you. You are better than no one. We were all created in the image of God.
Happy Women's Equality Day!
S
* Photo courtesy of reutC's Flickr page. Many thanks to her.
posted by Sparkfly at
11:18 AM
1 Comments:
I love this post. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I SO wish that I had thought to sing that song to Cady today. I did take her to hang out with 2 wonderful feminists at JC: SDJ and LSA so I think she's getting the message :-) Feel free to consider my child another one of your children; I'm happy to share. The older she gets the more I realize her need for other strong women to mother her in addition to me.
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