Family Time | philosophy

09 Apr Parenting is just a bunch of letting go

Posted at 01:58h in Feelings, Love, milestones, Parenting, Time 2 Comments

[caption id="attachment_590" align="alignright" width="230"] Kid Henry[/caption] Tonight Henry fell asleep in my arms, nursing before bed in the rocking chair in his bedroom. There's nothing unusual about that. It happens most every night. But tonight. Tonight I looked down at my sleeping baby in my arms and...

27 Feb What to feed the kid

Posted at 16:04h in Food, green, milestones, Parenting, Socially responsible, Vegan 2 Comments

[caption id="attachment_515" align="alignright" width="258"] Henry doing baby-led weaning with some steamed local organic sweet potato[/caption] Man, my head is spinning about what to do with food. For six months we've had it pretty easy with breastfeeding, and now starting solid foods is boggling my mind. Like...

03 Feb Veganism, the Apocalypse and the Meaning of Life

Posted at 16:48h in green, Parenting, Religion, Uncategorized 0 Comments

I had read about how background reading aloud is good for a child's developing brain in the opposite way that background TV is bad for him, so I picked a wordy book off the shelf to read to Henry today while he played on the...

27 Jan Stuff. Aspiring to zero waste…

Posted at 03:03h in green, Parenting 0 Comments

I hope to raise Henry with a healthy, educated view of stuff. It's tricky. My own relationship with stuff is conflicted. I like to hold onto things that trigger memories, but I also don't want anything new.The Story of Stuff films and book have really...

14 May Climbing through the branches of the family tree

Posted at 20:44h in Family, Feelings, Genealogy 3 Comments

this is for the grandmother who walked a thousand miles on broken glass to find that single patch of grass to plant a family tree where the fruit would grow to laugh - Andrea Gibson, Say Yes This weekend I am going to Alfred, New York, with my grandfather...