I’ve been invited by three different venues to do a book launch with them. But I’m not yet recovered from my vulnerability hangover. This year I’d like to spend behind the scene, quiet, reflecting and pondering life.
I knew my book is not for everyone, but I felt deeply that, for the few that I wrote it for, it will make a positive impact. I didn’t want to just write words on paper, words that flow, words that fill the silence, but I wanted to leave a legacy of truth, a specific chapter in my life, which is not very flattering, on the contrary, but it is just as much mine and it was real.
These reviews that came after I published the book, filled me with hope and healed a bit of my dread and self-consciousness about oversharing and vulnerability.
Your sharing touched my heart and I realize that I was just looking at your world, yours, through the curtain in front of the window. And so, there are many emotions that I felt, setups that I saw through your eyes and ah, context in which I stood with my breath held.
Jo
I liked it because I sometimes perceived very raw states and I realize that what you write is not really for everyone. You are brave and confident! That’s how I knew you🤗
Brian told me about 15 years ago that the most valuable inheritance for children is the parents’ diary. Maybe I’ve told you this before;) Jackie and Ivy are so blessed with you in their lives!
Reading, I also got to know the exhaustion that mothers feel at the end of the day or in the middle of it. Exhaustion, confusion, chaos and turmoil, the acute need for peace and recovery. Sometimes all of these have the infinity sign next to them :))) like the laundry that accumulates forever in the always full baskets :))
I finally read your book and I want to tell you how much it touched me.
You managed to create a true Bildungsroman of motherhood 💪. It’s a very honest and personal book. I really liked how you write about faith: warm, without pressure. I don’t have the same faith, I just hope there is a God, but I admire you for the way you live it.
My children have a religious upbringing, but I don’t manage to give them this feeling of cosmic security. Maybe that’s why this aspect of the book touched me the most.
Now, and as a mother, I always wonder: what am I doing wrong? :🫣 so I found myself in many of your struggles. And this fragmentary style, with suspended thoughts and short notes, conveys very well what it means to be a mother – that never easy feeling of splitting myself in a thousand directions.
thank you for showing yourself as you are, this is a real support. at least for me ❤️
Katalin