I love reading Julie Leung’s blog. She write on diverse topics and has a beautiful writing style. She’s smart, she nearly became a doctor! Some of her topics are a bit intellectual for my thick head, but I thoroughly enjoy the challenge and opportunity to stretch. One of my favorite entries has to do with being a mom. It’s called Triple Scoop Cone. In it she writes,
There are moments of motherhood like ice cream. Like eating a raspberry sherbet cone while sitting outside on a sunny day. It’s intense. It’s slow and sweet. And then, before I know it, it’s gone.
Yesterday, she wrote The denial of our mammalian nature. This is a good read! What she wrote in the last paragraph was, what I feel to be powerful and very thought-provoking:
I find it ironic that our culture celebrates the female body with its curvaceous shape that is suited for particular childbearing functions. Now the navel has become fashion, adorned for adoration, pierced and bejeweled. What is a bellybutton but a reminder of the physical connection to a mother - and her intense investment?! We celebrate breasts, we celebrate navels but we don’t celebrate or encourage the investment a mother must make into her children: instead we deny the biology that gave her her body.
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