Wednesday, October 7, 2009

This Space is Not For Me



I am immersed in my profession at this time. The profession that "pulled me back in" just when I thought I was out. I thought I was embarking on a new road, where I would grumble about the not enough sleep, the troubles with feeding, and difficulties in running those errands with baby in tow. I'm walking to an office store just shy of a deadline by a few hours to get this big project off my hands, and I stop at an empty parking space. And I study the painted yellow blocks with BABY spelled neatly, but the pavement is cracked with an attempt for repair and the pavement is stained. "Fitting," I think, and I continue to stare. Sadly. It's quite fitting that it's empty because this space, this parking place for a road that I thought I would be on, is not for me.

[This post is part of The 73rd Circle Time: The Show and Tell. Click here to see what others are showing.]

14 comments:

  1. WOW! That's all I can say ....

    ReplyDelete
  2. I'll second that 'Wow!'

    ReplyDelete
  3. This post made me feel very quiet. Abiding with you.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Also in a place I never expected to be. I hear you in so many ways with this post.

    ReplyDelete
  5. sending you a big fat hug, I was walloped in the gut with one of the baby parking spaces once after losing Peyton. I just sat there, teary eyed in the lot wondering what the heck had happened to my life. Seems the reminders of our loss are everywhere sometimes. Hugs to you.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Very thoughtful and eloquent post. Thinking of you and the various roads we all have to travel (especially when they are in need of work and repair).

    ReplyDelete
  7. Beautiful post about a very sad place. Sending hugs to you.

    ReplyDelete
  8. I looked at the picture of the broken stained road with the word "BABY" written on it and wondered what it represented - my tired broken heart where my baby lives for ever or my stained wounded womb where my baby lived for 36 weeks?

    ReplyDelete
  9. There is some symbolism you'd just rather not get.

    ReplyDelete
  10. What an amazingpost. It is quite fitting. THank you for sharing!

    ReplyDelete