Thursday, December 07, 2006

formalities

"the only constant is change"

I have tried to raise my girls according to the principle - that change is to be embraced, not feared, because change is a surety.

so why am I trying not to notice that the changes that are occuring in my life concur with a steady march towards middle age? I am 38, many of my schoolfriends are having their first babies now, my eldest daughter is about to hit 20, I can no longer call her a child.

and my baby, although still tiny, scrubs up into a gorgeous young woman.

not goth,not emo, a unique child with a theatrical disposition