New kinds of Stories- Renewal

Feminist Grandparents

I've been running around so much that I find little time for blogging, but here I am again. I just wrote a piece about becoming a feminist grandparent that I hope will get published soon. It is interesting to me that after spending so many years focused on catastrophehe and disaster that my attention has shifted to birth and grandparenting. One of the things that the women in Blowing on Embers taught me was to always stay open to renewal and that one of the wonders of life is that in the midst of misery there are moments of hope and then sometimes there are many wonderful moments all in a row. Keeping in mind that a both/and notion of life--- not all good not all bad makes it possible to get through event the hardest of times. The delusion that somehow we will come to a time when all is good keeps us unfocused on what is working even in the worst of times. It can even bring worry to the best of times. Like to hear from any of you still out there.