Beautiful post Kathryn. A few years ago I wrote an essay exploring the grandmother hypothesis and the older woman's societal role. I loved reading your take on this very important topic. In the last two years especially I have felt my energy shift fundamentally towards this same direction. I needed that time after my own children to create some kind of a career and expression of myself at that moment. Now I am increasingly finding myself moving back to the core--my family and tending this patch of earth. I spent the last 6-weeks helping my child's family welcome their second baby. I lived in a rocking chair with this wee human (when not cooking for everyone) and it felt good.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story Kirsten- it really is a profoundly special time in a woman’s life and nothing in our culture prepared me for the shift. You and Christopher are blessed with a more traditional family configuration now because of the choices you made when you were younger. I often cite you as one of the people I most admire for the life you’ve actively and wisely created for yourself and your family.
I would love to read your essay on the grandmother essay- where can I find it?
Loved this.
Beautiful post Kathryn. A few years ago I wrote an essay exploring the grandmother hypothesis and the older woman's societal role. I loved reading your take on this very important topic. In the last two years especially I have felt my energy shift fundamentally towards this same direction. I needed that time after my own children to create some kind of a career and expression of myself at that moment. Now I am increasingly finding myself moving back to the core--my family and tending this patch of earth. I spent the last 6-weeks helping my child's family welcome their second baby. I lived in a rocking chair with this wee human (when not cooking for everyone) and it felt good.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story Kirsten- it really is a profoundly special time in a woman’s life and nothing in our culture prepared me for the shift. You and Christopher are blessed with a more traditional family configuration now because of the choices you made when you were younger. I often cite you as one of the people I most admire for the life you’ve actively and wisely created for yourself and your family.
I would love to read your essay on the grandmother essay- where can I find it?
Aww, thank you 🥰
Funny thing that when we were younger making those choices I was often looked down upon by my peers...in a way the choices felt like a radical act.
I will send you the piece. It was published in the beautiful print magazine Taproot. I don't think it is online anywhere.