cafemamasarah gilbert's weblog, in which she discusses life as a mama, whether she's working, blogging, writing, marketing, reading, running, knitting, sewing, birthing, cooking or just thinkingan urban homesteader knits . tales of dishcloths and sprouts . february 11 . 2008- February 12, 2008 I'm not sure what was the genesis of it all. I often call giving up my car my "gateway sacrifice,", so maybe it was that. Maybe it was the BBC, night after night as I struggled for sleep amongst breastfeeding babies and pregnancy aches, telling me in the agonizingly calm voices about species disappearing in Portugal, about glaciers melting to nothing in Iceland. Maybe it's part of the process of becoming myself, that process that seemed so simple and straightforward at 19 (because I was already.http://www.cafemama.com/2008/feb/11_an_urban_homesteader_knits.html |