The Invisible Real

by Amber on November 6, 2009

in (In)courage, parenting, what is childlike

imagineSo what of imagination when it’s splayed open, the little ones exposed and raising their voices like commercials in explanation: Look here, Mama, at the great invisibles; see the wolf in the curtain, the train come to take us, the deep water below the bed?

So what of it - when I give the yeah -yeahs and the uh-huhs? What of it dies down a little?

As a mother, now it is my honor to put out fires or to let them burn, and how can I know how to enter in without my own attentive imagination in tact and the power of empathy in force?

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brittney 11.06.09 at 1:07 pm

“I am a mother, a shepherdess of bleating souls. They squeal and play, and I can crouch down with them and show them how to give it to God. I can crouch down and learn how to hundred-fold envision, how to act out needy and how to act out pure.”

Wow. I feel like all I can do lately is quote what you say back to you. I hope you don’t mind.

Erin 11.08.09 at 6:48 pm

Amazing

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