I’ve been reading a challenging book called Hospicing Modernity and, together w the Ayoto article you shared, and this post, it’s really getting me to think about my reliance on frameworks to navigate the world. As a tech worker frameworks were necessary for quickly building understanding and helped me get taken seriously but as a parent it really all falls apart. Parenthood has gotten me to (uncomfortably) face all the parts of life that cannot be neatly intellectualized and must rather be felt. Thank you for this post.
I’ve been reading a challenging book called Hospicing Modernity and, together w the Ayoto article you shared, and this post, it’s really getting me to think about my reliance on frameworks to navigate the world. As a tech worker frameworks were necessary for quickly building understanding and helped me get taken seriously but as a parent it really all falls apart. Parenthood has gotten me to (uncomfortably) face all the parts of life that cannot be neatly intellectualized and must rather be felt. Thank you for this post.
Would you recommend the book?
yes! it’s been very paradigm shifting for me personally!
Yes to this!! Everything seems so black and white before parenthood. Nothing else has made me get quite so uncomfortable, in a good way!
This was so damn good, Fran. Like a conversation with an unschooling therapist.
Thank you so much Brittany, that means a lot to me!