The Resurge of Nature
In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner thing happens, the resurge of nature.
-Edna O’Brien
I love that line. And it feels so true. D*mn if all my friends aren’t pregnant.
Ok, I am exaggerating. Not all my friends (as my friends reading this blog breathe a sigh of relief. Phew! I thought she knew something I didn’t) but it sure feels like it. This is absolutely cause for celebration, particularly since lots of these soon-to-be mommies are fellow IF bloggers. So, hurray! Take a dance around the evergreen and toast your non-alcoholic eggnog.
But please don’t forget your friends who are trying, and trying and trying, and still haven’t found their path to parenthood. I have to thank Pamela Jeanne for finding and sharing this Open Letter to the Expectant Mothers in My Life (with Love) written by Luna. Here is just a small excerpt, but I encourage to go visit Luna’s blog for the entire post:
But as my friend and loved one, I would hope that you can open your heart and mind to try to appreciate where I’m coming from, where I am. That you can understand I may need time and space to heal, to deal. That you will not take it personally or take offense. That with love and compassion you might try to understand this is not about you.(I know, I said before it’s all about you, but this part is about me.) I sincerely hope you can accept that my actions and emotions reflect my own affliction, and not my feelings about you or your child.
I will wholly embrace your baby into this world with blessings and an open heart. But just as my joy for you is not diminished by my own suffering, my pain is not diminished by sharing your joy.
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