Category: Milestone Moments

Posted in Mid-Life Mama, Milestone Moments, Mother to Crone

40 Years as Mother

Posted on by Kelly (of rituals)

1 month remains between me & the Motherhood Archetype on this 365 Day Journey toward Menopause.

As a gesture of release & acknowledgement, I empty my drawers of tampons (while still keeping some in my purse)–certified organic, chlorine-dye-synthetic-plastic-additive-free, 100% cotton–noticing how foreign they’ve become in my hand after 11 months without employment.

I began this journey of The Mother with my first bleed–at exactly 13 and a half (like my mother before me and my sister after me)–and in the absence of a u-turn on the immediate horizon, I’ll finish this journey at age 53.

Thanksgiving Day.

Forty & a half years later.

(October 23, 2017.)

Posted in Mid-Life Mama, Milestone Moments, Round Two, Teens

Never Grow Up

Posted on by Kelly (of rituals)

 

My little, almost 17 yr old, scientist, still trips over himself–from the dinner table to the front porch–calling to the rest of us–Come see! A rainbow!

Posted in Fragile Life, Milestone Moments, Twenty-something

August 1st

Posted on by Kelly (of rituals)

to be embodied. together. in the water. in the sun. in the shade. on a blanket. their skin. his chestnut eyes. his ocean blues. my babies grown. their parents greyed. this family. once forever. now moments. like this. as deep as all of us in the same bed. didn’t he twirl my hair as we nursed in the blue chair. didn’t he cry to sleep in the stars & moon sling against his father’s chest. i must take a photo! but no. i can’t bear to capture that which is only now. this breath. my head. his chest.