mama

it’s mother’s day and my baby is blessed to have the mama she does.

it’s not just that she got mama’s good looks, or her dance moves, or artistic spirit (she can sometimes lay down and draw for an hour on her own), or intelligence ( she is counting and learning her second language

aza’s mama always finds attention to give, and dosn’t bother to mention that she has a half dozen or more deadlines in the air. she has done every bit of research humanly possible about how to best look after babies health, which of course means that she is always doing more. she is up all hours of the night to play and dance when baby has nightmares, she clues in the clueless papa to what he is missing and puts up with his sulkiness at not knowing it all, and her hugs and kisses are not only the best they are endless.

more than all though she has a mama who is teaching her every day to respect herself and be herself. already at two she gets asked her opinion all the time (not one of those hippy mama’s who dosn’t believe in saying no, but one who respects baby’s “nos”), and her mama is planning out a life that makes her a partner and looking at her writing and art through the lense of accountability to her and to her perception as she grows up..she is commited to taking care of herself so that she will be there for baby and to being herself so that baby will grow with that same freedom. and she constantly opens the space around her for others to do the same, becuse she believes that our spiritual discipline is radical love.

baby is blessed to have the mama she does