One of the things people dont really give you enough warning about when you become a parent is the outrageous tendency strangers have to do weird stuff to your baby.
As I sit here writing, I feel that mixture of excitement and anxiety that comes up for me anytime I leave my kids for a few days. I know that I'm doing this for myself - to help reclaim those parts of me that I never actually needed to put away or give away or push away at all.
Shannon Hawley is a singer-songwriter and poet based in Shelburne, Vermont. She just released her first full-length studio album, A Different Kind of Progress, a five-year project she finished on the exact day her second daughter was born. Shannon is hosting an album release party on Saturday, November 20 at Study Hall in Burlington, Vermont.
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