Poignancy – The Revelation of the Real
This moment feels like most of the others. I am just driving home, aware of many “happenings,” but not all that connected emotionally to the stuff going on around me. And then pops into my head, a story I recently heard: Late one night, a pregnant mother’s water breaks and her contractions begin to come announcing the imminent arrival of her second child. She wakes her husband and let’s him know that “it is time.” As he begins to pack the bags for the hospital, she heads up stairs to her three-year old daughter’s room. She opens the door quietly,...
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Last night I dreamed a dream within a dream. My body was dying, it was clear death was imminent, and I was faced with the horrifying vulnerability of not being ready; who could take my place with my children, who would possibly love them as I love them? They are so little still, they wouldn’t even remember me. I hadn’t had time to give them all I wanted to, needed to. There was a sense of scrambling against the moment, desperately attached to our world, my body and its roles. Inside the dream I presenced anger, despair, terror, a total loss of control. How could this be, how could...
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Chris White, M.D. is a board-certified pediatrician whose parenting work aims to optimize the developmental potential of children and their parents. He regularly writes on 
