Underlined: Buddhism for Mothers by Sarah Napthali

This line made me weep and weep.  I'm trying so hard to live in the moment, thanks to this incredible book my sister-in-law gave me.  I have a huge stack of baby/parenting books, and this book has helped more than any other because it truly does cover everything you need to know.  No, it does not contain strategies to get your baby to sleep, or how to get a good latch on, or what to do with a fussy baby, it's more so a strategy for living, which indirectly covers all those topics.

Could there be any better way to get my nose rubbed in the truth of impermanence than to love a child in a jagged, careless world?...And even if everything goes absolutely perfectly, I know that this particular Skye--the one who warbles and passionately sucks on the bill of his rubber duck as he splashes with me in the tub--is going to dissolve like bubble bath.  Yesterday he was a kicking bulge in my belly as I swam laps in the July sun; tomorrow he'll be a middle-aged man, weeping and scattering my ashes in a mountain lake. p 148  (This excerpt was actually written by Anne Cushman but was quoted in this book)

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