The Truth, In Twelve Words Or Less
The truth about motherhood:
The sum of all universes, shat upon, but ever-wiped and diapered.
(Spare and obscure, I admit - and meaningful, perhaps, only to me - but I was simply incapable of even beginning to ponder the question, what is the truth about motherhood according to me?, without either writing a six-volume epic, or a koan. I went with the koan.
If you're reading this Sunday, you've still got time to answer the question, put forward by PBN. You might try to do it as a koan, in one shortish sentence. Be sure to link PBN and Discovery Health if you do it before midnight tonight. Let me know, though, via linkage and/or comments, if you go the koan route - which is, really, just a concise sentence, usually one that articulates contradictions, but it can sound however you like. Your truth about motherhood, twelve words - or so - or less. I'd love to compile them. )
(Look! SusieJ did it! So did Ali-RN! You can too!)
My universes, summarized. (Soon to be universes, squared.)Labels: Mush
posted by Her Bad Mother @ Sunday, March 30, 2008
17 Comments:
Oh my. I feel like I should mail back my diploma since I have no idea what in the world a koan is. A poem plus a ???chorus???. I'm off to google this term to save myself from the ignorance.
But, whatever it is, yours was very good.
I had to look it up, as well. But thanks for teaching me a new word. Wonderbaby is supercute.
"My universes, summarized."
I completely love that line! Very cool.
mothering, the foundation of all to me, encompassed and transformed my being
that's my summary...
leah
Leah - beautiful.
What a gorgeous photo! She looks all toddler like now!
Gabriella
I think I need to return my diploma too, as I never learned about koans. Yet, you inspired me to google the term... and I wrote my first koan. My question, which I still find inaccessible to the rational mind.
Irrationality of Motherhood
Well... it would be nice if I could make a rational link!
http://www.susiej.com/index.php/the-irrationality-of-motherhood/
I keep looking at your banner and then looking at WB and thinking....wow, she's really grown this year.
Lovely post, Cath.
oh catherine wonderbaby is really growing into a sweet little girl...and i will have to go google koan to see what precisely it is....LAVANDULA
I don't know about the whole koan thing, it is hard to think when your nose is running, but I just had to say, WB? She is lovely as usual, but when exactly did she become such a big kid? Wow.
i did it!
http://ali-rnmom.blogspot.com/2008/03/100th-post.html#links
FG - NO EFFING IDEA. I'm as amazed as you are.
She looks like fun ;)
Motherhood: the best and worst job I've ever had.
Cute, cute, cute. Sorry, brain turned all gooey when I saw that picture.
Hey - I love We Covet! Congrats on the new site. I followed the link to the wall decals post at RealSimple and FINALLY found a wall decoration for Q. Thank you.
OK, this is closer to a haiku than a koan, but here you go:
The world turns without asking my permission.
I try to tie a string around the ocean.
Time flows through my fingers.
My baby is four.
Oooh Foop! That's fantastic!
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