Comments on: Snapshots http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:14:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kohana http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-57048 Kohana Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:29:46 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-57048 Reading this I hold my breathe, and don't realize until the end that I am panting a little, taking in the intensity of it. My own girlhood rushed back - three days on a train from St. Petersburg to Odessa - poo on the tracks. I want to let my husband read this because it is so beautiful, but I am also a little afraid because he's already talking about India in longing tones. One global move and new baby feels like all I can handle this year...but there's always next year waiting! Reading this I hold my breathe, and don’t realize until the end that I am panting a little, taking in the intensity of it. My own girlhood rushed back – three days on a train from St. Petersburg to Odessa – poo on the tracks.

I want to let my husband read this because it is so beautiful, but I am also a little afraid because he’s already talking about India in longing tones. One global move and new baby feels like all I can handle this year…but there’s always next year waiting!

]]> By: Travels in India | Owlhaven http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55864 Travels in India | Owlhaven Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:46:55 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55864 [...] Owlhaven I love these scenes from Journey Mama’s travels through India with her young [...] [...] Owlhaven I love these scenes from Journey Mama’s travels through India with her young [...]

]]> By: angie http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55402 angie Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:37:53 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55402 Probably seems funny in a childlike way to you,but reading about your train ride and the term "chai walla" reminds me of sitting in the darkened theater with my husband a few weeks ago,watching Slumdog Millionaire and hearing this term so many times.... now reading your account which is so spell-binding and enchanting! I know to you,this is just your life...your everday...your reality.But isn't that what's so neat about the place where we've been placed for our Purpose? To us it's the present Reality...to someone else it's an unfolding story:) Probably seems funny in a childlike way to you,but reading about your train ride and the term “chai walla” reminds me of sitting in the darkened theater with my husband a few weeks ago,watching Slumdog Millionaire and hearing this term so many times…. now reading your account which is so spell-binding and enchanting! I know to you,this is just your life…your everday…your reality.But isn’t that what’s so neat about the place where we’ve been placed for our Purpose? To us it’s the present Reality…to someone else it’s an unfolding story:)

]]> By: Sarah http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55321 Sarah Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:12:00 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55321 This NEEDS to be one of your "other novels". I think my recurring comment on your site is "where do you find the mental fortitude to write like this in the midst of the many physical and emotional demands of your life?"...I am sure there are plenty of other mothers like you, doing what you're doing (though I'm unclear what you guys are doing...settling there? passing through? ministering?), but how many have your spirit, how many have a voice like yours, how many have your talent, and how many can put it all in writing at the end of the day??? I'm pretty sure you must be the only one...and really India is only the backdrop...it's the motherhood issues, the domesticity issues, the spiritualy, the marriage, the travel...all the other stuff that is truly compelling. Okay, so I'm done. I don't know what my point was. Anyway, this is wonderful...particularly as I have had trouble getting motivated enough to strap my daughter (my one and only child) into her carseat and take her to Target to buy toilet paper. Really, this was faublous. This NEEDS to be one of your “other novels”. I think my recurring comment on your site is “where do you find the mental fortitude to write like this in the midst of the many physical and emotional demands of your life?”…I am sure there are plenty of other mothers like you, doing what you’re doing (though I’m unclear what you guys are doing…settling there? passing through? ministering?), but how many have your spirit, how many have a voice like yours, how many have your talent, and how many can put it all in writing at the end of the day??? I’m pretty sure you must be the only one…and really India is only the backdrop…it’s the motherhood issues, the domesticity issues, the spiritualy, the marriage, the travel…all the other stuff that is truly compelling.

Okay, so I’m done. I don’t know what my point was. Anyway, this is wonderful…particularly as I have had trouble getting motivated enough to strap my daughter (my one and only child) into her carseat and take her to Target to buy toilet paper.

Really, this was faublous.

]]> By: amber http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55184 amber Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:35:21 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55184 30 hours on a train, 4 babies, 6 and under. you two are my new heroes. you write beautifully. 30 hours on a train, 4 babies, 6 and under. you two are my new heroes.

you write beautifully.

]]> By: Tj and Mark http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55126 Tj and Mark Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:41:01 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55126 Perhaps all of life is like that; it is not just what you see but who you see it with. Thanks for sharing. Perhaps all of life is like that; it is not just what you see but who you see it with. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Kim in Marquette, Michigan http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55106 Kim in Marquette, Michigan Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:26:00 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55106 Thanks for sharing your grace, vision, and passions. I love your descriptions of light. Thanks for sharing your grace, vision, and passions.

I love your descriptions of light.

]]> By: Marci http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55102 Marci Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:42:13 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55102 Rae, thanks so much for these snapshots into your trip. You are so good at describing everything. I get anxious just thinking about being in your shoes with so many children. Congratulations for surviving the trip intact!! Poo on the tracks...eww. Amazing. Rae, thanks so much for these snapshots into your trip. You are so good at describing everything. I get anxious just thinking about being in your shoes with so many children. Congratulations for surviving the trip intact!! Poo on the tracks…eww. Amazing.

]]> By: Sharonnz http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55083 Sharonnz Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:46:01 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55083 Wow. Fantastic descriptions. I remember feeling completely overwhelmed by our measly 24 hour train journey in India and that was when our children were mere twinkles still. You rule. Wow. Fantastic descriptions. I remember feeling completely overwhelmed by our measly 24 hour train journey in India and that was when our children were mere twinkles still. You rule.

]]> By: Rebeca http://journeymama.com/2009/04/02/snapshots/comment-page-1/#comment-55080 Rebeca Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:26:34 +0000 http://journeymama.com/?p=1185#comment-55080 I can almost picture being there with you... someday. I can almost picture being there with you… someday.

]]>