Laundry Line Divine

Mamafesto for Laundry Line Divine: A Wild Soul Book for Women

Mothering has been my life for more than 16 years. My children are 13 and 16 years old right now.

I am committed to celebrating my Value. I am a Woman who is a Full Time Mom, Artist Writer. Here at the Laundry Line, I explore and celebrate the sacred in daily life, with the kids and beyond. I live at home and coordinate a very normal, extraordinary life with my husband here on a street in a town in soft mountains on the edge of Massachusetts. There are many like me, many women at home, who while sorting the wash also sort the issues of identity that merge and diverge from birth to your child’s independence.

My kind, a stay at home Mom in a small town, is getting rarer as more families relocate from these towns to city life where jobs and education flourish. I may be rare, but I am as common and important as water, as dandelion fluff, as wind and as starlight.

I see myself as a Fortunate Woman to have discovered my Happiness, my Source in this sea of folded towels, hairbands, and leftovers.

There will always be mothers.
There will always be women craving a bigger life within the cradle of kitchen, swing set and homework.
I believe you can live it all here, among the lost socks and scuffed knees of parenting.

Today, so many of us feel the shadow of the age old view that Motherhood, though Blessed and Celebrated in certain circles, is considered “opting out”. There are many of us who choose to stay in the workforce while mothering. This is called having 2 full time jobs. There are some who choose to stay at home, which in my book is another way of having 2 full time jobs, because while you are caring, tending, shepherding your lambs from birth to graduation and beyond, you have the responsibility to care for yourself and your connections to family, community and the world. Women anchor the lives of our children and mates from the smallest of gestures to our advocacy for better lives for all children. In living our fullness, our real time lives with children, with or without jobs outside our home, we are creating a new age where every role of woman is honored and celebrated.

Laundry Line Divine is not limited to those with children. There are women who stop in here seeking nourishment for daily life. We are all, as females, equipped with the ability to create from our joy and wholeness. So fortunate we are.

Thank you for stopping in.

With Love,

That stunningly eloquent video was made by Ali Smith. You can find her on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Momma-Love-by-photographer-Ali-Smith/168703773146547 Follow her there and check out her wonderful work. Thank you Ali for this beautiful project! xoxoxoxS