You must not lose faith, as there is no reason to even begin doing so! I am searching, searching, searching, and the search is going well! My explorations lead me away from my computer for days at a time, but fret not! Oh No Mama will bring you something beautiful, sensual, delicious and fulfilling very soon! Ok, I promise I will keep you updated once a week. So you know we are still alive out here in the jungle.
All my love,
Foo senior
February 23, 2009
February 11, 2009
Week 1
Today, I made a great discovery. I have been putting together questions to ask people on interviews as well as coming up with topics for research. As I was sitting across from my daughter and watching her play with some flash cards her grandmothers gave her, I suddenly remembered something.
A shoe box.
During my pregnancy, I found myself unwilling to think. My brain seemed to turn off. But, I wasn't working so I was bored at the same time. So, I started going through all of my writing and organizing it into topics by writing on index cards and storing them in an old shoe box. This kept me busy without requiring too much of my baby brain. Then, when my baby was born, I stashed the shoe box and have not opened it since, having so many other things to occupy my time like burping and nursing and singing Paddy Cake.
Today, however, I remembered one rubber banded bunch of cards with questions and insights that I had collected from writings done before I was ever pregnant. Writings about...you guessed it, my thoughts and wonderings on the menses.
There they were, in all their indexed glory. I took them out and started reading through them while Ms. Foo simultaneously crumpled them up and through them on the floor.
Critics.
But these cards had so many thoughts and ideas that I had forgotten all about! Motherhood having erased some memory.
It was a gift to see how I felt about menses and motherhood before I became a mother!
Thank goodness for old shoe boxes.
Oh, and one more thing! If you have any comments, information, or experience with any of the above mentioned or anything having to do with the menses, please leave a comment or email me! A link to my email can be found by visiting my complete profile.
A shoe box.
During my pregnancy, I found myself unwilling to think. My brain seemed to turn off. But, I wasn't working so I was bored at the same time. So, I started going through all of my writing and organizing it into topics by writing on index cards and storing them in an old shoe box. This kept me busy without requiring too much of my baby brain. Then, when my baby was born, I stashed the shoe box and have not opened it since, having so many other things to occupy my time like burping and nursing and singing Paddy Cake.
Today, however, I remembered one rubber banded bunch of cards with questions and insights that I had collected from writings done before I was ever pregnant. Writings about...you guessed it, my thoughts and wonderings on the menses.
There they were, in all their indexed glory. I took them out and started reading through them while Ms. Foo simultaneously crumpled them up and through them on the floor.
Critics.
But these cards had so many thoughts and ideas that I had forgotten all about! Motherhood having erased some memory.
- Toltec teachings on women and how they relate to the spiritual world during menstruation,
- How I began to notice and be taught that the moon and our cycles are synchronistic,
- Questions about women in other countries, their practices and circumstances
- Comparing childbirth and periods to everyday waves and tidal waves
- My deductions from what I had learned as to why we may suffer during PMS
It was a gift to see how I felt about menses and motherhood before I became a mother!
Thank goodness for old shoe boxes.
Oh, and one more thing! If you have any comments, information, or experience with any of the above mentioned or anything having to do with the menses, please leave a comment or email me! A link to my email can be found by visiting my complete profile.
February 10, 2009
The Beginning
First of all, I would like to thank all of you who have been reading this blog regularly since August, or since you became aware of it.
As many of you may remember, Oh No Mama went through a change in the new year, bringing you more in depth blogs and a wealth of health and fitness information.
Now, change is coming once again.
I have decided to go back to the beginning of motherhood. The beginning that is not yet mother hood, that is only the cycle of the possibility.
This is not something I can investigate in one week or even two. There are many questions I want to get answered, many issues I need to dig up. Among them, separating fact from myth, and finding the amount of knowledge present in people and if it differs from male to female. From birth, boys and girls are indoctrinated with different sets of values and I want to find out how much this bleeds into the blood of our cycles.
I also want to explore the little mentioned idea that men experience a type of monthly cycle as well. I will talk to every day people and professionals, I will go out on the street and do polls, and I will dedicate myself to outward and inward research.
In this blog, I will talk about some of my experiences. Although the final product will hopefully be paper product, here I will speak about some of the things I see and find on my explorations. I hope you will join me on this journey.
As many of you may remember, Oh No Mama went through a change in the new year, bringing you more in depth blogs and a wealth of health and fitness information.
Now, change is coming once again.
I have decided to go back to the beginning of motherhood. The beginning that is not yet mother hood, that is only the cycle of the possibility.
This is not something I can investigate in one week or even two. There are many questions I want to get answered, many issues I need to dig up. Among them, separating fact from myth, and finding the amount of knowledge present in people and if it differs from male to female. From birth, boys and girls are indoctrinated with different sets of values and I want to find out how much this bleeds into the blood of our cycles.
I also want to explore the little mentioned idea that men experience a type of monthly cycle as well. I will talk to every day people and professionals, I will go out on the street and do polls, and I will dedicate myself to outward and inward research.
In this blog, I will talk about some of my experiences. Although the final product will hopefully be paper product, here I will speak about some of the things I see and find on my explorations. I hope you will join me on this journey.
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