Because creation wasn’t just about making things and naming them, the way some folks made it seem. There’s a responsibility to creation, to bringing someone or something to life. Yes, when you have a child, that child depends on you. But you depend on them, too, in ways you’d never have known or imagined—a reciprocity that has to be honored. No mother is greater or more important than her own child, just as no tree is greater or more important than the seeds it releases to the wind. Each life equally important to the vitality of the whole, regardless of how enticing a promise it is to become,
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