This moment right here…
The unknowns of the upcoming school year—tears, anxieties, second-guessing, painful decisions, boil up to this moment right here as my family prepares to start a new chapter, during a pandemic, no less! I tuned-in last week to author Martha Beck’s live session, “The Gathering Room: What Are You Becoming?” To my delight, Martha picked my question, and her response took my breath away! I asked: “How do I re-root myself after feeling grief from my daughter going off to college, out of state? Everything in our life is already transforming. It’s as I’ve been dropped off in a strange place, and I’m trying to find home.”
Martha said, “If you go in and look at the beauty of your relationship with your daughter and the incredible love with which you brought her into the world and raised her for 18 years. Talk about amazing! It takes no time at all to kill someone. It takes so much to raise someone, to keep someone alive. And the beauty of that is manifested in the love you feel; the problem is …
Martha said, “If you go in and look at the beauty of your relationship with your daughter and the incredible love with which you brought her into the world and raised her for 18 years. Talk about amazing! It takes no time at all to kill someone. It takes so much to raise someone, to keep someone alive. And the beauty of that is manifested in the love you feel; the problem is …
