Nurturing their babies, women reassess their mother's lives and are 're-born' themselves. In MotherKind, birth and death happen as concurrent transformations, and the amazing strength of relationship courses through and beyond both. MotherKind, you have said, draws from your own personal experience of being a mother and caregiver. The process, at least for me, takes years, fitted in around the rest of life. Yet the paradox of her presence is just as strong.
Family is our spiritual blueprint.
We're born into it and move off from it, into the endless permutations and patterns we make of those first intimacies - mother, father, siblings, homeplace. If they're absent we construct them. If they're damaging we try, even as children, to fix them. We live in a fast, mobile, scheduled society. Like Kate and Matt, we hire help or depend on social services for assistance.