http://www.mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/ the shape of daily life Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:13:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-3323 Mardougrrl Tue, 09 May 2006 22:26:19 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/#comment-3323 I'm always trying to clutch these moments, always berating myself for not doing enough to document the wonder. Thanks for the reminder that just BEING with the moment in its entirety is a blessing. I’m always trying to clutch these moments, always berating myself for not doing enough to document the wonder. Thanks for the reminder that just BEING with the moment in its entirety is a blessing.

]]> http://www.mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-3322 pixie Mon, 08 May 2006 18:03:26 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/#comment-3322 i feel this too. every day is a memory game for me, trying to brand his smiling gaze into my mind, his wobbly round butt on the floor, how he brightens when his hands beat the drum, how he nurses-each gulp and gasp and hmmmm and glance. i take the pictures, but they don't capture what i see at all. i write about it, but when days have passed i can't remember the smell in language. i know it will never end, this deep yearning to capture the moment. relaxing into it and knowing that i will not remember it specifically is so painful, but the only way i can get my head out of the scrapbook and into my baby's hair.... thank you. i feel this too. every day is a memory game for me, trying to brand his smiling gaze into my mind, his wobbly round butt on the floor, how he brightens when his hands beat the drum, how he nurses-each gulp and gasp and hmmmm and glance. i take the pictures, but they don’t capture what i see at all. i write about it, but when days have passed i can’t remember the smell in language. i know it will never end, this deep yearning to capture the moment. relaxing into it and knowing that i will not remember it specifically is so painful, but the only way i can get my head out of the scrapbook and into my baby’s hair….
thank you.

]]> http://www.mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-3321 Kristi Sun, 07 May 2006 03:23:23 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/#comment-3321 Beautiful. You express so clearly what so many of us mothers feel inside, but for some reason we can't quite express, and it stays trapped inside. You truly have a gift. Beautiful. You express so clearly what so many of us mothers feel inside, but for some reason we can’t quite express, and it stays trapped inside. You truly have a gift.

]]> http://www.mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-3320 melanie komisarski Fri, 05 May 2006 19:57:26 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/#comment-3320 "Perhaps we would not move with agility into the future of each moment, if we could fully contain the memory of each passing day." So thought provoking and moving, your writing gives me chills! “Perhaps we would not move with agility into the future of each moment, if we could fully contain the memory of each passing day.” So thought provoking and moving, your writing gives me chills!

]]> http://www.mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/comment-page-1/#comment-3319 thodarumm Fri, 05 May 2006 13:39:55 +0000 http://mytopography.com/2006/05/03/1st-time-in-the-pool/#comment-3319 I can never figure out which I like more: your brilliant words or your pictures... beautiful.. I can never figure out which I like more: your brilliant words or your pictures… beautiful..

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