This is what I know today
Posted on | August 9, 2009 | 10 Comments
To be a child means living wonder,
without knowing wonder is a concept, an abstraction.
I was a star before I fell down into your tummy, Mommy, Bean tells me. We’re on his bed, the blue Hawaiian print sheets in a rumple, the lights dim, twilight outside.
Everyone dies, he says but we don’t stay dead. We go up to heaven and then we come back down again as a new baby.
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I am Christina Rosalie
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I am a multimedia storyteller, digital strategist, idea starter, stalker of wonder, finder of four leaf clovers, MFA graduate student, and mama of boys. My first book,
will be published by SKIRT! Books in September, 2012.
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August 9th, 2009 @ 8:09 pm
Smart kid
August 9th, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
sounds like bean understands more then most of us.
August 10th, 2009 @ 1:09 am
That is exactly what all of my kids have told me…individually.
August 10th, 2009 @ 3:16 am
I can’t get over how beautiful he is.
August 10th, 2009 @ 12:09 pm
I’ve been reading your posts for a bit now and this one just pushed me over the top. I have two boys myself – did I say boys? I meant ‘young men,’ young men who have given me so many moments of wisdom like your Bean has done … How lucky we are to be walking so closely with sages.
August 10th, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
children really are old souls who come back to tell us about life, I swear!
August 10th, 2009 @ 5:04 pm
May Bean never lose this knowledge and faith… about where we all come from, and how connected we all are… And may we never forget that these babes have much to teach us if we take the time to listen.
I love this post.
August 10th, 2009 @ 6:18 pm
Your son sounds already like he is going to be a writer like his momma!! he has a way with words that boy>!
tara
August 13th, 2009 @ 4:17 am
Tears. Eyes brimming with tears. My great aunt just passed. And she was GREAT. And I hope she returns. Children know more of the truth than any of the rest of us – that I do know. Thank you for showing up in this space and sharing so beautifully and consistently.
August 13th, 2009 @ 1:55 pm
Oh, this boy is full of magic…he always has been. However long “always” – who knows?