After creation,
the Mother knew
sorrow–the emptiness
that comes after fullness,
the softness that remains
for a long time.
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So beautiful!
Beautiful and poignant Rachel! This is the postpartum I have known as well. I want to print this and put it in my scriptures with the creation story, the way I used to glue things in my scriptures during seminary.
Thank you for bringing in a bit of the Divine into what can feel like the most challenging of sacred times in life. It’s a painful beauty sometimes, isn’t it?
I love this, Rachel!
Trying to extend these functions to the general case of noninteger powers of complex numbers that are not positive reals leads to difficulties. Either we define discontinuous functions or multivalued functions . Neither of these options is entirely satisfactory. The rational power of a complex number must be the solution to an algebraic equation. Therefore, it always has a finite number of possible values. For example,