Category: Student Blog
I filled out a survey about women's body image after giving birth. I thought it was interesting so I thought I'd post some of my responses.
How old were you when you had your first child?
24
How many kids do you have? What are their ages?
1, she's 7 weeks old
Did you have any body image issues after giving birth?
Several weeks ago at St. Paul's, we sang "Gather Us In." Now, as with many things, it takes several hearings before it stands out so I have probably heard this hymn before. It grabbed my attention right off the bat with the place reference. It describes so much of what I have been trying to articulate about Philip Sheldrake's work Spaces for the Sacred that welcomes the periphery into the whole...the marginalized and broken, the ambiguous and forgotten people and memories are brought out into the Eucharist.
In Laundry Liturgy and Women's work, Kathleen Norris reflects on the nature of the mundane tasks and the potential for sacramental inbreaking. Tonight as I did the dishes alone in our hot kitchen, something sparked my memories of working at Inspiration Hills. For three summers (1995, 1996, 2000) I worked as grounds crew, lifeguard, and sometimes reluctant counselor. I would spend glorious hours in the sun, evenings worshipping with new friends, late night games, and lots of laughing.
I apologize for this blog's dormancy for the past few months. I can assure you that it has not been abandoned yet.
This is destined to be a short post as i'm due home in 20 minutes, but I just handed in the draft of my thesis and need a few minutes to decompress - so i thought i'd mention something i'd been thinking about lately - accountability.
One of the toughest things about hard, effective training of the type i'm promoting with this blog is figuring out where to place accountability to ensure the
Just a very quick post/update as i struggle unsuccessfully (at least this is how it feels) to write write write my way into a master's degree. I'm normally fond of procrastinating until the last minute - i work better under pressure and find i'm more efficient this way - but i've never quite been in a situation like this where two weeks out from the deadline for a completed first draft is the
May 3, 2010
What a glorious day. This is the day I gave birth to my gorgeous girl Myra May.
Today, she is two weeks and one day old.
I've been so overwhelmed by this new role of mine. Mom. Just seeing that word makes me shiver in my boots. I much prefer Mama. I think I can handle that one.
The nights have been trying. Getting her to settle down seems next to impossible. I hope time will resolve these sleepless nights.
This video is even better than the first. I'll let it speak for itself.
My brother commented the other day after his last Vdot test (see 'participant workout logs' on the sidebar and then TMF crew for training specifics) that although there was a huge improvement, he felt like he was really struggling - so much so that he imagined he was going quite slowly.
I learned to deal with this feeling long ago, and have pretty much been able to adjust my internal sense of '
Here in Texas, I have one particular co-worker who insists on saying “chips and sauce” but the truth is everyone else thinks he’s an obstinant idiot tilting at windmills. Most people who go out of their way to conjure up such bizarre attitude/posturing are simply racist out of ignorance because they’ve never been outside their locality to any substantial degree and just cannot imagine why the rest of the world uses different languages besides English. Yet, they’ve no trouble saying omelette or sauerkraut. Weird.
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