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  • 1 week ago | kateseward.substack.com | Kate Seward

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  • 1 week ago | kateseward.substack.com | Kate Seward

    There is somethingabout the patch of sunabout the hush of treeson the edge of summer,all there is to love and appreciate and admire,right now, in this moment,

  • 3 weeks ago | kateseward.substack.com | Kate Seward

    At the Mother’s Day Paint and Sip we drink grape juice from plastic flutes and watch our toddlers dab watercolor on little canvases. My daughter is so happy I’m there, she presents me to the room as if doing Show and Tell. Miss Alejandra, her favorite teacher (it’s daycare but we call it school), hands me a paper cone with paper flowers and “Happy Mother’s Day” written on it in glitter paint. I think, holy shit, I’m someone’s mother. It’s a state I’m always in and also outside looking in, amazed.

  • 2 months ago | kateseward.substack.com | Kate Seward

    I almost called this Motherhood/Sisterhood/Friendhood/Daughterhood/Womanhood, because I feel like we apologize so much of the time, it’s basically a reflex. Whenever my two year old says, “I’m sorry,” for no discernible reason, I always ask her why. I probably should ask myself the same. Anyway. Last night I accidentally turned off this light with a pink bulb that my daughter likes, and when she protested, this is what I said. It stuck with me.

  • 2 months ago | kateseward.substack.com | Kate Seward

    Given the chaos of what’s happening in the world, plus the chaos of what’s happening in my personal life—looking for a university teaching job, looking for immediate freelance work to pay the bills, doing the work I have from my one freelance client, doing some exercise so I don’t completely lose it—I failed to register that National Poetry Month has begun!I love National Poetry Month. I’m a poet, so, duh.

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