Almost Three and Totally Free
I have been elbows-deep in learning and unlearning all summer. My investment in antiracist equity work has led to countless hours of researching, reading, investigating, viewing, engaging, and sharing. This has been a priority, a true commitment to being a better educator, partner, parent, human. If I were to prioritize the above 'being' list, I know parenthood would be the first item on it. Becoming a parent has not only changed who I am in many, many ways, it has also come to be the way I define myself. I know I have to be careful with this -- there is learning and unlearning to do here, too. And, thanks to some summer reading, Untamed by Glennon Doyle, I'm finding -- no, creating -- the freedom to do exactly that...and our tiny human, a perfectly free little being, has been an excellent model. BR and I were late eager arrivals to parenthood (REMINDER TO SELF: We don't allow social constructs to define what's normal or right for our crew). We arrived w