To Be
I was watching a friend's 9-month-old today while her mom worked for a few hours and it was delightful! The baby was curious and content. She explored carefully and seemed to really study each book, each stuffed animal my boys offered. It was like time slowed down as I watched her; I was free to just "be" and watch her discover what was what in the new surroundings. My youngest is 4, so I've forgotten what this "baby time" is like. It was peaceful, quiet, soothing to my soul. I do remember enough to know that not all of the hours in the day with a 9-month-old are like that, but this afternoon was restorative. one thousand gift #21: an afternoon with Molly I was reading excerpts from Kierkegaard a few nights ago and am thoroughly fascinated with his mind. In excerpts of Sickness Unto Death , his penultimate work, he writes of two kinds of despair. The first is the "despair which is Unconscious that it is Despair, or the Despair...