Wow, Cathy, this is very powerful and thought-provoking. I am interested in tracking my energy rhythms. I know I am a "morning person" but the idea that there are cycles within that is new to me. Thank you!
Thank you Cherie for reading and commenting here. This idea has been powerful in establishing my writing practice and has enabled me to produce much more work with greater ease. I am working on a part two to this piece.
Cathy, i loved so many of the pieces you wove together around rhythms here. thanks for including a quote to my piece on seasons.
I found your point on developmental rhythms across generations fascinating. I hadn't considered that piece before but it rings true. any recs on ways to explore this generational piece more intentionally in our own lives (or resources you found especially valuable around this intergenerational component)?
Hi Sam: Thank you for your kind words. I have always been fascinated by the theories of adult development and this notion that adults, like children, continue to develop in somewhat predictable patterns. I have found Jennifer Garvey Berger's work on this helpful, her book Changing on the Job" is a practical look at this topic and how to apply it to your understanding of others. But this particular post was most inspired by the beautiful essay, called Young and Old: The Dance of Generations, which appeared in the book "On the Brink of Everything" by Parker Palmer. Thanks again for commenting here and for your essay on Seasons, which I loved.
Beautiful, Cathy I love how you talk about your connection to the 19th century through your grandmother and to the future through your grandchildren. My great grandmother, Nana, was born in the same era, and though I was young enough when I knew he that my memories of her are vague, I can see her back porch, her apple tree, her gnarled hands, her kind eyes. And I’ve thought of my connection to the past through her and through the stories I’ve been told of two other great-grandmothers—one who fled pogroms in what was then Russia and is now Ukraine to Ellis Island, where she met my great-grandfather, who’d left Italy. The two married despite not knowing each other’s language. And he died in 1918, either from the Spanish flu or a factory fire, shortly after the birth of their third child. I think often of what I carry in my bones and heart from these women. And I think of my daughter, who’s considering now whether she wants children and how all this extends the span of my roots here. So I loved to hear your writing on the subject.
And too, I’m in a period of needing to listen to the rhythms of my body more closely. Thank you for this post. :)
Thank you, Holly, for taking the time to share these amazing stories of your connection to the past. "what I carry in my bones and heart from these women." This beautifully describes the living sense of what we carry. I hope this piece offered some comfort to you as you pay attention to the rhythms.
What a treat! I get to hear your voice!!! Thank you for sharing "more of you" with us Cathy!
Wow, Cathy, this is very powerful and thought-provoking. I am interested in tracking my energy rhythms. I know I am a "morning person" but the idea that there are cycles within that is new to me. Thank you!
Thank you Cherie for reading and commenting here. This idea has been powerful in establishing my writing practice and has enabled me to produce much more work with greater ease. I am working on a part two to this piece.
Cathy, i loved so many of the pieces you wove together around rhythms here. thanks for including a quote to my piece on seasons.
I found your point on developmental rhythms across generations fascinating. I hadn't considered that piece before but it rings true. any recs on ways to explore this generational piece more intentionally in our own lives (or resources you found especially valuable around this intergenerational component)?
Hi Sam: Thank you for your kind words. I have always been fascinated by the theories of adult development and this notion that adults, like children, continue to develop in somewhat predictable patterns. I have found Jennifer Garvey Berger's work on this helpful, her book Changing on the Job" is a practical look at this topic and how to apply it to your understanding of others. But this particular post was most inspired by the beautiful essay, called Young and Old: The Dance of Generations, which appeared in the book "On the Brink of Everything" by Parker Palmer. Thanks again for commenting here and for your essay on Seasons, which I loved.
Beautiful, Cathy I love how you talk about your connection to the 19th century through your grandmother and to the future through your grandchildren. My great grandmother, Nana, was born in the same era, and though I was young enough when I knew he that my memories of her are vague, I can see her back porch, her apple tree, her gnarled hands, her kind eyes. And I’ve thought of my connection to the past through her and through the stories I’ve been told of two other great-grandmothers—one who fled pogroms in what was then Russia and is now Ukraine to Ellis Island, where she met my great-grandfather, who’d left Italy. The two married despite not knowing each other’s language. And he died in 1918, either from the Spanish flu or a factory fire, shortly after the birth of their third child. I think often of what I carry in my bones and heart from these women. And I think of my daughter, who’s considering now whether she wants children and how all this extends the span of my roots here. So I loved to hear your writing on the subject.
And too, I’m in a period of needing to listen to the rhythms of my body more closely. Thank you for this post. :)
Thank you, Holly, for taking the time to share these amazing stories of your connection to the past. "what I carry in my bones and heart from these women." This beautifully describes the living sense of what we carry. I hope this piece offered some comfort to you as you pay attention to the rhythms.