Asher got a great new book on Saturday. It tells all the animal sounds (a horse says "neigh," a cow says, "moo," etc.), and the last page says- "It's quiet now. What do you say?"
Asher loves that book.
In the normal pace of life, I am in the habit of observing some silence. Not the complete silence of meditation (I love that silence but have not cultivated it, sadly), but a little quiet in my day, wherein I sit in the same spot for more than ten minutes and take a deep breath. But it's been weeks since I've had any quiet, and I miss it. The Indigo Girls line comes to mind: Why must we hurdle ourselves through every inch of time and space? I must say around some corner I can sense a resting place. Why indeed.
This is my only concern in having another child. It took several months for me to find a rhythm to my day, to have time for quiet. I'm not concerned about the noise in the house; I'm concerned about settling my mind. Another little person's life will be entrusted to me. Will I learn to be disciplined enough to think about life outside of my little home? I hope so.
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It is hard to do at the beginning, but it comes back. It really does.
Oh, and Zachary loved that book. Except, it took him forver to learn that pigs say "oink." One day we were out and he saw a picture of a pig. "La, la, la" he said. Oh, so that was the problem...
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