Joining MoxieWife for my week’s Five Favorites. I’ve come across some wonderful posts and articles lately so this week I have a link share for you.
1. A post about “Having it all” from THIS New York Times article. Having it all may just come in the little moments of life like these.
“It might be a fleeting moment — drinking a cup of coffee on a Sunday morning when the light is especially bright. It might also be a few undisturbed hours with a novel I’m in love with, a three-hour lunch with my best friend, reading “Goodnight Moon” to a child, watching a Nadal-Federer match. Having it all definitely involves an ability to seize the moment, especially when it comes to sports. It can be eating in bed when you’re living on your own for the first time or the first weeks of a new job when everything is new, uncertain and a bit scary. It’s when all your senses are engaged. It’s when you feel at peace with someone you love. And that isn’t often. Loving someone and being at peace with him (or her) are two different things. Having it all are moments in life when you suspend judgment. It’s when I attain that elusive thing called peace of mind.
Which is why I love bakeries. Peace descends the second I enter, the second I smell the intoxicating aroma of fresh bread, see apricot cookies with scalloped edges, chocolate dreams, cinnamon and raisin concoctions, flights of a baker’s imagination, and I know I am the luckiest person in the world. At that moment, in spite of statistical proof that this is not possible, I have it all. And not only that, I can have more.”
2. From Haley at Carrots for Michaelmas who writes about the frustration that comes from the “performance mentality” that I think really haunts a lot of moms in our day who compare ourselves to an ideal we may have or a “career woman” with a “real job”.
“But it’s not just academia that has this sort of performance mentality. It’s any career path, right? How much did you accomplish? How did you move forward? How productive was your day? How can you improve efficiency? And for those of us that step from one world to the other….it’s confusing.”
“I cannot examine motherhood with the lens of any other sort of job. When I do, I feel frustrated and dissatisfied. I need a different pair glasses to see the beauty of motherhood.”
3. A good post here, because we all have those “I just want to give up mothering” days.
4. I follow the blog “The Thinking Housewife“. I had to share her “Greetings” page with you all. Very good point she makes, one I have to remind myself of often.
“People say the domestic life is narrow and stultifying, a prison for the intellect. Feminists have long made this claim.
I guess you could say it’s true, but only if you think human history is boring, the laws of nature are boring, love is boring, birth is boring, children are boring, personality is boring, the mind is boring, morality is boring, death is boring, male and female are boring, sex is boring, illness is boring, kisses are boring, prayers are boring, philosophy is boring, poetry is boring, God is boring, the seasons are boring, gravity is boring, song is boring, trees are boring, sunlight is boring, the stars are boring, snow is boring, dew is boring. If all this is true, the home is not what it appears: a fount of ideas and truths, a university and a museum, a laboratory for the curious, a gallery of all that is human. If the home is boring, life itself is a desert.”
5. And not a post BUT a video I came across from this Summer….one Gerhardt will one day beg me to never show again.
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Oh, that video will be a CLASSIC.