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Feb 4, 2023Liked by Jody Day

This speaks so directly to where i am at this moment. i am 52, just had a hip replacement, and lost my mother to ovarian cancer. I have no children--a choice I made in my 20s. I've been a college professor/teacher for 30 years, and i have just put in a request for a leave of absence, so that I might create some space for my transformation--full of old longings that I set aside for years in the spirit of ambition, and not trusting my inner self. Now, my body and spirit are leaving me no choice but to go down and deep into my soul. Thank you so much for this place and this writing.

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Dec 17, 2021Liked by Jody Day

Wow! I am still in the hopeful-for-child phase at 41, and the idea of never being ok with not having children has just been transformed into a small glimmer of hope that there is something equally fulfilling awaiting me if I don't. Deep thanks for opening my mind to another perspective x

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Beautiful, stunning and so much to savor here Dear Jody! "And just because my loss has carved a groove that welcomes something deeper a little sooner, does that have to make it wrong?" I'm approaching a different milestone/rite of passage (gladly turning 50 in February), but yet I get this. Thank you XO.

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