I would like to welcome you to the art mama blog. My name is Monika. I invite you to my parenting world. To memories, thoughts, reflections, snippets of life, pictures of everyday life….
In a special way I dedicate my writing to those who, as parents, accompany all artistic souls.
I wish you the most beautiful moments together, especially the everyday, ordinary ones that are so easily lost….
In preparation for motherhood, I read all the textbooks available at the time about being a mother. I had subscribed to two parenting magazines. When our children appeared I was prepared. I thought so.
And although much of what I learned at the time later blurred into the commonplace, one particular text stayed in my thoughts for a long time (actually, it’s still there). The poem. An unassuming one. Maybe even too simple. Maybe not even a poem. However, in my heart, in a bizarre way, it has remained forever and set the main direction of my motherhood. Like a compass. I have never strayed from that direction. I hope so…
A lesson in love
I will not cast the deadly noose of my years upon this young neck,
Nor will I bind his choices with life withering and my hair gray.
…But smiling I will give him freedom,
recalling once again
How lifted by a brisk, ardent breeze of hope,
with compressed muscles, breathing joyfully
long, long ago
I myself took off for a run .
…And although he will run along a different path from mine,
