Sat_Chit_Ananda

God-loving, heart-centered. Poetic, philosophical, and practical. Rural homeschooler & homemaker.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

A woman weaves the fabric. And she knits and she stitches.

Nowadays, few women do that handwork. But the fabric of society still needs weaving.

It is the knitting together of a household. It is the stitching together of people into a family, a clan, a neighborhood, a village.

People do not connect merely because they live close to one another. A family living in a single house can become strangers. A family spread out in a single city may never see each other.

Never seeing each other is easier.

Coming together takes work. Consistently. Insistently.

There must be a place, a reason, and a call.
Someone must call everyone together.

A lucky family has a woman who knows how to weave, stitch, and knit them together. She calls together the loved ones, pulls them out of their isolation. She keeps a place for them to come to.

She tells them why to do it: It’s Thanksgiving. It’s the weekend after Thanksgiving. A baby is coming. It’s a birthday. It’s almost Christmas. It is Christmas. Now it’s New Year’s Eve.

Don’t be alone, be with us. We need to eat and drink together. Sing together. We need you to come play your guitar. We need you to bring that pie you make. We need you to bring your kids. You’ve got to come tell us about your travels, your project, your ideas.

When they come, she pulls them inside, links them to one another, and fills up their hearts with such warmth that they feel a little unwilling to face the unstitched cold afterwards. They linger in the doorway, they let just one more conversation start. They spot one more person they haven’t spoken with yet.

They like the feeling of being woven together.

When leaving comes, it feels, even with a loved one in the car, like solitude, compared to that glowing place they just were in. The conversations, the play, the laughter echoes in their hearts.

And it reverberates in the walls of the weaver’s house. The house that is a loom, where she brings together the threads of her family, her clan, and makes something purposeful, needful, and beautiful.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@singingbirth Sounds like you found a good spot! It’s like that here where I am, too.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@AppWoodHome @OldHollowTree Exactly! Pockets make dresses look frumpy. It’s a feminist meme - do you remember when it started?

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@homemakinghunny That’s what I’ve been doing. Nerf war gymnastics gym party with popsicles. Roller skating rink party with cupcakes. Five years old and under? Family party with grandparents and cousins is what makes them happiest anyway, so I don’t do friend parties for the younger kids.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@itachikarin @KristinCarrigg No, not Jewish. The faith is called Krishna Consciousness, and it’s a very old tradition out of India.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@NoRiskaNoReward @ThymeToBeBorn Mystery of mysteries!

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@NoRiskaNoReward @ThymeToBeBorn I completely disagree with that characterization!

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

I got some advice that’s been really useful to me as I navigate difficult questions: don’t over-explain.

Kids ask questions that freak us out because we have so much information and emotional baggage. But if we pause, answer in the simplest way possible, and then wait for follow up questions, it gives us a chance to realize our children are not asking for all the info at once.

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

This is the result of the pathetic new moral framing we all accept and welcome

Now if anything is hard, difficult or consuming then we don’t want to do it

Men used to go die in wars for their wives, for their children, for their country

Now they complain online that raising children is hard so therefore it is ok to kill them

We are raising weak pathetic women and men, there is no honor anymore, no moral duties, no obligations to anything besides our own selfish indulgences.

This is what happens when we tell people the pursuit of self is the goal of life. We raise weak narcissist losers just like this guy.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@allie__voss Wow, you’re totally right. That’s insane.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@Markoos88 @Hestia_Esq Gosh. I actually do care about that problem. How many Down Syndrome orphans in the USA are awaiting adoption? That seems like a really solvable, not controversial problem.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@lukeappleton I have zero interest in childless people’s advice or opinions on parenting! Worse than useless.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@MarvelTeacher2 As a well-paid salaried employee, I was never paid for the time I spent “mentally preparing” for my professional day.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@missyfaystevens @SunWeatherMan The timeframe is given. The shift is rapid, flooding like a tsunami. Ben Davidson’s YouTube channel has a lot of explanatory videos.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@YosemiteFoghorn @SunWeatherMan Well, Einstein, these folks say it happens before 2050.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

@iam_preethi And remember: that nurse has been taught about breastfeeding by pharmaceutical reps pushing formula. Those companies WANT you to fail so you’ll buy their product.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

I’ve had four babies, and eventually I figured out what to do. I upped my magnesium glycinate intake in late pregnancy (last month at least), and kept taking it after giving birth. Maybe even some extra at that point. Also lots of water, especially post-birth.

Happily, these things also facilitate a healthy pregnancy, labor, delivery, and recovery in other ways.

[Sat_Chit_Ananda @TheSoulExists]

Right, you’re not quite to the place where you will reap the benefits of having multiple kids. But well before your second turns 5, you will! A three-year-old and a six-year-old can occupy each other rather well.

I have four, ages 9 to 1. Baby #4 is easier than any previous one because we have 3 older kids around to help and keep company. There magic in larger families, I think.