You see, children are smart, much smarter than given credit for. ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.” “Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures. The problem was…all was not well and they knew it. Sadly, being in a volatile relationship that was less than loving, I often over compensated for this lack by creating an “all is well” mentality. My every intention and action was made with their well being in mind. As a young mother, having my daughter at 20 and my son at 24, I fought to provide a steady and stable environment for them. Upon reflection, I see these words demonstrate the ebb and flow of parenting in many ways. Everything does not need to be analyzed, planned and accounted for. To walk in the woods without a path to guide the way, sit on a “lonely shore” and feel the breeze of the morning tide coming in. Life events can feel so contrived at times that one begins to forget what it means to experience things in a natural state. Reading George Byron’s piece, I was immediately struck by the opening line, “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods…” Byron was certainly a poet after my own heart. ― George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal I love not Man the less, but Nature more,įrom these our interviews, in which I steal There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
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