Adventures and Misadventures
Misadventures:
Right you stubborn Stuntfool, you. Let me once again remind you of something very important.You, Self, are a MORNING person. What takes you four hair-ripping hours at night will take you 12 minutes in the morning. Stop pretending to be hip, cool and goth and just go to bed early and get up early like the lark that you are.
I think I have fixed all the html that I infested with demons last night. But let me know if something weird happens, okay?
Adventures:
I have had a post nominated for The Perfect Post for the second month in a row. You’ve no idea how happy this makes me, and didn’t I just need a little joy after this week. Thank you, Masked Mom. (Don’t you love that name, by the way?) The post in question is this. Daniel and Helena teach me many things — and one of the very many reasons why I am glad I had two (even if some days I wish I had none) is that their amazing, profound differences and yet equal wonderfulness put me firmly in my place. I do not create these people. I watch them. Guide them a little, hopefully. I follow them and hope and strive to be worthy of the place I have in their lives.
From Khalil Gibran (which I’ve posted before, and Richard has posted in the comments, but needs to be repeated every so often):
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of to-morrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
#1 I LOVE Khalil Gibran, he just happens to be on my list of books all humans should read.
#2 Congradulations on the nomination, you totally have that in the bag, like the others should just bow out gracefully now before anyone else is embarassed.
#3 Sis’ta can we talk about being a morning person? I can completly join this club without hesitation. The funny thing it that I tried for years to be a night person, but the reality is that I am morning people ALL the way.
I’m testing my own comments. No really. That’s how screwed up my html was.
Gibran lived on a different plane to we mortals; but it does give us something to aspire to. Thank you for the reminder.
I’ve managed to totally fuck up my blog multiple times before. This is what happens when you let a librarian code your site!
Congratulations on your perfect post nom. I loved that post, personally. As the parent of an odd-duck, it is nice to know that others cheer their children’s nonconformity!
I haven’t been here for a while, life is kind of strange at the moment – but I love the Khalil Gibrain quote, I’d forgotten all about it.
I recently posted a poem I love also about motherhood.
And I can identify with the morning-person thing. I keep staying up too late on MSN, and I do so suffer.
Somewhere we have Kahlil Gibran’s Prophet’s thoughts on marriage done in calligraphy and framed.
I like the new look…
…and congrats on the PP award.
Congrats! That was a terrific post, worthy of the award.
And the Gibran–well–thanks for the reminder. I need to post it somewhere and read it daily.
Ah.. I have five (only just grown and flown) beautiful kids (people) and this is and has been my mantra for the 25 years of being a parent, it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE.