Strolling through the web I found
this article by Elizabeth Lesser on
becoming a grandmother.
A friend asked me if becoming a grandmother made me feel old. I didn't know what to say. It's not that it makes me feel young. Rather, it makes me know what matters; it wakes me up; it enlivens me. Joseph Campbell said that people are mistaken in looking for life's purpose in concrete and noteworthy ways. The only purpose there is, he said, is to feel "the rapture of being alive." That's what I feel as a grandmother. I am hooked up to a mainline of rapture in the form of a baby.
Amen.
1 comment:
Amen is right. I've been a grandma for a little over a year. It's the best. One part I adore is watching my son be such an amazing father.
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