Telling: Altars & Artifacts

mom

naming names

Jacob has started calling Watt "Poppy." No one can quite figure why or how he came up with it. The first time I heard it, Watt was lifting Jacob, deep asleep, to carry him from our bed to his. Jacob stirred, opened his arms to Watt and murmured, "Poppy's home."

 

A Mother's Journal

field notes from
1997 - 1999