Another wonder of this sentence is its momentum, change and movement through time and history, being reduced to nearly nothing and the long return to oneself after a sojourn in the wilderness of child birth and care, a return to selfhood but with more insight and tools and strength and power than ever before.
And, of course, the obvious metaphor that I completely missed--the pilgrimage of pregnancy. Pilgrimage: a journey often to an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of a new or expanded meaning of self, others, life.
Another wonder of this sentence is its momentum, change and movement through time and history, being reduced to nearly nothing and the long return to oneself after a sojourn in the wilderness of child birth and care, a return to selfhood but with more insight and tools and strength and power than ever before.
Thank you for seeing this--yes! So much movement through time and changing selves.
And, of course, the obvious metaphor that I completely missed--the pilgrimage of pregnancy. Pilgrimage: a journey often to an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of a new or expanded meaning of self, others, life.