Mom is where we start from

Winnicott: 'Home is where we ...

made with Smilebox (wouldn't have put 'Rectngl Collage in the name if knew wld show like this, as if paperclipped, in email image), which gives the code to post in Blogger. I took out the html for the logo & 'customize a digital collage' prompt
for Mother's Day, May 9th, tomorrow

smiling at

peekaboo LILO grin tree
child happiness

open eyes ---this is what I look like because I believe in you!
little fist held ~ eagerness, anticipation, delight ~ a tension

I love to see her postures, undesigned

and actually looking like a caricature, or what would do to signal an emotion, make it large, like on stage.
delight really looks like that? interest really has you leaning forward. or looking up at an airplane, mouth shaped oooh ahh pursed circle.

The Hand That First Held Mine p83: She moves the rattle from side to side and the coloured beads ricochet around inside their clear globes. The effect on the baby is instantaneous and remarkable. His limbs stiffen, his eyes spring wide, his lips part in a perfect round O. It is as if he studied a manual on how to be a human being, with attention to the chaper, 'Demonstrating Surprise.'

sorter studied (Brer Rabbit). later, actually. designed. assumed, tried. stances, attitudes, postures.

A Mind At Peace opening page: His first order of business was to hire a nurse. Given that neither Ihsan's wife nor his mother ever stepped away from the sickbed, the children languished in ruin. The elderly servant could easily handle Ahmet but someone had to fully occupy his little sister Sabiha. More than anything she needed an interlocutor. As Mumtaz mused, he smiled inwardly at the various postures of his little niece.

remember the bull puppies: 5 July 2006

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Mommy, I'm going to sweep for a while

adorable charlotte

"you're a good kicker!" (several times, after I kick the soccer ball to her across the basement playroom. she's a good kicker too!)

"well sure I do." (after, eg, do you go to the pool a lot?)

"of course I have to clean up now." (doing dishes after making tea at toy kitchen unit.)



Upstairs from the playroom, in the kitchen, her mom is telling me about her favorite frog with a blanket body. I turn to see her carefully coming up the stairs, one step at a time, slow, forward, holding the frog...






*video* "baby boo-ok"



Mommy, I love this mailbox -

to me:
Will you leave this mailbox here?
(Totally, it's all yours now.)
Thank you -

Will you leave this book here?
(Sure, I'm giving it to you.)
Thank you -

Will you leave this frame here?
(Absolutely.) ... (told her that was her mommy in the photo, along with me, and also Jen & Dimit) My mommy?!

(then looking at the red mailbox & the tiny blue German dictionary, absorbed again, then looks up)
Will you leave this here?
(yes.)
Will you leave *this* here?
(yes.)

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Tuesday morning ~ midday June 16th ~ visited S's pretty home (like Forest Glen to me, small brick, tree shade, backyard view up hills with stairs built in)

Lilo ! .. "lit-tle arms" ..

wiggle wiggle wiggle "lit-tle arms" .. "we're gonna put on some cream. and then we're gonna put on a di-aper!"

old room - and, love-you-thinking-of-you