Category: books
“For My Daughter on Her 21st Birthday” by Ellen Bass (in Mules of Love)
Following yesterday’s post on the “woman-guides” in our lives, a second poem by Ellen Bass for Mother’s Day 2010 and my daughters’ 16th and 19th years. For those who aren’t enthralled with poems, or who are looking for those magical numbered posts (I love them too–if they were good enough for The Buddha, they’re good enough for me), fun publishing & strategy stuff coming next week.
For My Daughter on Her Twenty-First Birthday
by Ellen Bass
When they laid you in the crook
of my arms like a bouquet and I looked
into your eyes, dark bits of evening sky,
I thought, of course this is you,
like a person who has never seen the sea
can recognize it instantly.
They pulled you from me like a cork
and all the love flowed out. I adored you
with the squandering passion of spring
that shoots green from every pore.
You dug me out like a well. You lit
the deadwood of my heart. You pinned me
to the earth with the points of stars.
I was sure that kind of love would be
enough. I thought I was your mother.
How could I have known that over and over
you would crack the sky like lightning,
illuminating all my fears, my weaknesses, my sins.
Massive the burden this flesh
must learn to bear, like mules of love.
c Ellen Bass www.ellenbass.com
“Pray for Peace” for Mother’s Day by Ellen Bass–and NYC workshop info
I’ve been enjoying the lovely Mother’s Day posts landing in my mailbox and Twitter Feed the past couple of days, but I’ve had some reservations about posting my own. I’ve been thinking both about the vast awakenings, fears, surrender, disappointments, and life-long surprises of motherhood, but also about the invisible shock, surrender, disappointments, and life-long… Read More>>
Three Cheers for Shama! Named one of Business Week’s 25 Under 25
Three Cheers for Shama Hyder Kabani, founder of Click to Client, who was just named a a 2009 Finalist “America’s Best Young Entreprenuers” by Business Week. She’s definitely hit that sweet spot with a message, idea set, and clear constituency that have created buzz and hungry readers for the launch of her book The Zen of Social Media Marketing.
