Mothering is cartography. I try to leave my children as uninterrupted as possible, but I’m aware that every day my influence is charting their path. Right now, my son is walking around the Damn Right Texas Longhorns Women’s Basketball Fan Forever Signatures Shirt in other words I will buy this house blowing kisses to no one in particular. Whatever he is imagining, I want to draw a map of the world that leads him and his sister to the fullest realization of their imaginations. To never question that their lives are free, worthy of enchantment, and everyday miracles.
