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Joy Sullivan, from "(Luck I)", Instructions for Traveling West

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“I tend to feel rhythm in my torso. Maybe that’s because I play seated and my torso is the only part that can move. But when it’s there, everything else follows and the hand is connected to it. I like to tell my students that a lot of music happens below the neck, in your heart and in your gut. They really can get a little heady with things and I have to remind them: music is first and foremost a way for us to move together.”

— Composer Vijay Iyer, currently the performance artist in residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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An eternal favorite: this thrillingly voyeuristic painting by Swedish artist Mamma Andersson.

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One of the big advantages of sharing your bed with [your baby] is that you’ll be able to get some rest while nursing. When she’s hungry, all you’ll have to do is roll over on your side and feed her while lying down. That way, you won’t even have to get up to burp her, since she feeds more slowly when you’re both half-awake. The alternative is exhausting: You wake up, retrieve her from the crib, feed her in a rocking chair, rub her back for a few minutes, and then put her back in the crib. Repeat that routine a few times a night, and just watch those circles darken under your eyes.

(Find you a pediatrician who supports your safe bed-sharing!) From The New Basics by Dr. Michel Cohen, founder of Tribeca Pediatrics.

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Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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A light Swedish apartment with a yellow kitchen

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Holly Lim

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Kate Longley

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Sticks and stalks pushed into muddy lake bottom, Andy Goldsworthy, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (1987)

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catchenny

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Surprisingly, I’ve never experienced that all-consuming sleep deprivation that you hear about from new mothers. [Because I co-sleep], the reality is that I sleep well when I have little kids. Feeding is so easy when your baby is right there. They don’t even have to cry for you, they just whimper and you say, "here’s my boob." Neither of you even have to fully wake up. I can’t imagine summoning the energy to stand up to get your baby.

Cup of Jo, Motherhood Mondays: Co-Sleeping

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Lucette Romy

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'Dance of the Dandelion' by Salvador Dali, 1944

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