by Jesua | Sep 11, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
This morning, driving the children to school, the skies were gorgeously astounding to behold. Something about the way the clouds were patterned and scattered in patches; allowing the sun to shine and flow through in distinct rays; the pink and lavender hue… it took my...
by Jesua | Jul 8, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
My son Ezra Star woke up sweetly today, pouncing on top of me in bed with all his 65 pounds of naked, sun-kissed, 6 year old love, panting loudly with morning breath into my still half-asleep ear: “Good morning my beautiful Mama Mama Mama!!!” I pulled him close, all...
by Jesua | Jun 14, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
My sweet boy Ezra Star (6.5) jumped onto my lap today, throwing his little arms around my neck, and apparently milking the Oedipal Phase for all it’s worth, announced: “You know, Mama? We can’t really get married to each other. Even if we wanted....
by Jesua | May 30, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
In these last weeks I’ve been pondering the tender intersection of choice, failure, and forgiveness. Always poignant topics inside a human life vulnerably given to the forces of love and loss, what has driven these issues directly and painfully home to my personal...
by Jesua | Mar 25, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
Last Sunday I had one of those days. It was like a Jesua version of Alexander’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. One thing after another went askew. I won’t even bore or depress you with the detailed account of everything that went wrong. It was like a...
by Jesua | Mar 5, 2015 | Musings From A Conscious Parenting
Yesterday I had to take my beloved boy Ezra (6) to get some follow-up blood work at the doctor office to investigate more thoroughly some of the numbers that had returned from the tests we had gotten the week prior. Nothing dramatically troubling at this point, just...
