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A Baby is Born, a Mama is Born: Blessingway in Boulder

We all love to celebrate the baby: baby showers, with their accompanying bundles of baby-related gifts are the norm. And as much fun as those showers can be, they don’t really address the amazing rite of passage that is also occuring: a mother is about to be...

Ceremonial Musings

One cannot live in the world; that is, one cannot become, in the easy, generalizing sense with which the phrase is commonly used, a “world citizen.” There can be no such thing as a “global village.” No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one’s partiality. -Wendell Berry

A Baby is Born, a Mama is Born: Blessingway in Boulder

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