I can hear Lou Reed playing in my head. I keep repeating that the poignance of parenting is that one raises these beings to be autonomous, which is to say to separate from that somatic and emotional proximity. But you highlight the potentiality of that separation, the potential energy of it that may return to us with kinetic force, in ways unique and surprising.
In our culture, especially in the performative micropolitics of social media posts, precludes this sort of sharing about our progeny (by birth or claim). It’s about the quick win of achievement, and not the glacial cultivation and emergence of relationship.
Oh my goodness Richard thank you for this. It really is interesting to consider relationships as the measure of success or accomplishment. It’s so beautiful and such a privilege to witness.
I can hear Lou Reed playing in my head. I keep repeating that the poignance of parenting is that one raises these beings to be autonomous, which is to say to separate from that somatic and emotional proximity. But you highlight the potentiality of that separation, the potential energy of it that may return to us with kinetic force, in ways unique and surprising.
In our culture, especially in the performative micropolitics of social media posts, precludes this sort of sharing about our progeny (by birth or claim). It’s about the quick win of achievement, and not the glacial cultivation and emergence of relationship.
Thanks for sharing this vignette of your family.
Oh my goodness Richard thank you for this. It really is interesting to consider relationships as the measure of success or accomplishment. It’s so beautiful and such a privilege to witness.