Welcome to Litsy!

My current read reminds me of sitting in my mother‘s closet, oh Dr. Spock, reminding mothers that they know what they‘re doing, trust yourself. I think I was 11 when I read this book, so it‘s hard to know what stuck with me and what I‘ve replaced, but I do wonder how that influenced the unconscious part of myself, in parenting, versus examples played out in life. 🤔

Yes, that‘s a fort. And my suspenders. Parenting.

In preparation for my son‘s visit I dug our Doctor Spock Baby Care book, now 40 years old. He and his wife are expecting their first child in October. He didn‘t want the book, but serendipitously we found a list tucked inside the book in my handwriting of names we were considering for him before he was born 35 years ago (both boy and girl, since sex was unknown). He took that. Sculpture was made by him when he was 10.