One Manly Mother
“We can be a parent who does ‘manly’ things like building concrete walls (as I do), as well as a caregiver who “dances” ballets in a bathroom with six-year-old granddaughters. We can be like my son Francis and not have kids of our own but become a creative loving parent (as it were) to his nieces and nephews, and to the hundreds of students Francis has inspired to make wonder-filled discoveries. We can wait to have children to the cusp of infertility, have them anyway, and so immerse ourselves in the wonder and discovery of community that we make up for the fact there are now no grandparents around to help out because we waited so long. The wonder is the constant here—not how we get to experiencing wonder. And the wonder of real life is being crushed even by the sexiest of elite jobs because when work is seen as a defining end in itself, it is too small a goal. Stuff, titles, and prestige cannot compensate for spiritual impoverishment.”
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Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy
is Available for Pre-Order Now.
To be published November 2 by HCI Books • Distributed by Simon & Schuster
