Maternar

Being a mother is a turn to the heart that turns your world upside down. Looking your baby in the eye for the first time rearranges your priorities, shapes your life; it leads you to promise yourself that you will do everything in your power for that creature. But bringing a child into the world does not only imply the responsibility of caring for and protecting him; also to release him, when the time comes, and let him walk alone, to choose the paths that her soul asks for, to fly free of burdens knowing that our task is complete. Being a mother is letting go of the rudder of a life that we made possible, that we fed and nurtured for years, but that does not belong to us. Finding the measure between absence and presence, between the softness that exists in a hug and the freedom that is found when undoing it, is learning to sustain without directing your steps. Julia Puig gives us in this book some guidelines to raise with soul and achieve that light and subtle balance of motherhood; in which two intertwined lives meet like two gnarled trunks that grow side by side, but are, and will forever be, irredeemably independent.