STANCES

pregnant Ama Chandra

"Standing up for one's self is one thing. Standing up for a person you don't know is brave, but standing up for mothers is one of the more dangerous things to undertake in cultures contemptuous of women, their wombs, their wounds, and their stance in a man's world!"  - Gregory E. Woods

pregnant at home

Unbelievable the sense of awe, and the way babies jolt us backwards with our own memories of wonder at the world when we were young enough to have memories of where we were before landing in our mother's arms wet with blood and water. There was no divide between worlds until we heard and learned the stories of this world denying the other, and fearful of returning to it. In reflection adulthood for most is taught as a practice of telling and internalizing lies about the truth. Sooner or later a little baby comes in all our lives the way Jesus came to Mary and we remember who we are and what agreements we made to come into this lifetime.  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories