“I share this because 6 years ago around this time my life was turned upside down in ways I couldn't have foretold (although strangely enough my fiction would argue otherwise), and I would think for many years that I was not worthy of being my son's Mom, that I had thrown away so much by having him at the wrong time - which was, again, that linear motion of "success" talking when it should have kept quiet and let me be my woowoo self with my development like tree rings rather than a neat A-B-Z.”