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Matrescence. ‘The process of becoming a mother, which anthropologists call “matrescence,” has been largely unexplored in the medical community,’ Sacks writes. ‘Instead of focusing on the woman’s identity transition, more research is focused on how the baby turns out. But a woman’s story, in addition to how her psychology impacts her parenting, is
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On attention:
Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. It’s all about taking in as much of what’s out there as you can, and not letting the excuses and the dreariness of some of the obligations you’ll soon be incurring narrow your lives. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
–from Sontag’s 2003
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We went to find the source of our local river, the Calder, up in the hills a few miles from home, very near the Yorkshire-Lancashire border. My 4yo found a large spoon on the way and when we got there(ish), we improvised a water pouring ceremony. I’ve been reading Is A River Alive by Robert Macfarlane and The Flow by Amy Jane Beer and this is my... See more
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