Category: Children

Musings of a deep generalist

Life’s Longing for Itself

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Vulnerability of Parenthood

Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Creating the Future

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.