An Introduction
Why León Loving?
A while back we watched the movie Loving. It's the story of Richard & Mildred Loving - the interracial couple who had the help of the ACLU to fight their case in the Supreme Court after being arrested in the state of Virginia for BEING MARRIED (a moment of silence for how especially f'd up the south has always been). Did you know that only in recent history (like the year 2000) has every state finally removed racist language from their state constitutions?!
For us, everything starts here; grateful to the people who came before us and made things like being different skin colors and still able to have a good and full life together possible.
I had a longass bio written that explains our life - why we moved from a place we love to a place we don't love but you know what? Scratch that. A new goal we have is to focus on here as home. Where we are, who we're with, for now... So. Forget about the lengthy bio. All you need to know is Angel is a born and raised by a single mom Dominican New Yorker and I'm a white all over the place-r raised by a mom and dad married for 42+ years. Merging our vastly different lives pre-marriage makes our married life together challenging as we grow, grow, grow. But it's real good for us.
Inez is our five month old daughter who, while very beautiful, is basically a stone cold baby B unless you're jumping, dancing, or speaking in embarrassingly high pitched tones. Or unless you're me or Angel. Her entrance into the world and everything that has happened since has changed my life forever.
After many people asking if and when I was going to start writing again (the true answer being that I already had), I realized... this is a time in our life that I never want to forget. I have NEVER felt like any one job has been the one I could do for the rest of my life. But this is my role of a lifetime; the role I get to consistently say yes to over and over again - on the hard days and easy days and in all the seemingly inconsequential moments. So this will be focused on my journey as a mother and wife - somehow trying to put finger to key on all the paradigm shifts and perspective changes I've encountered thus far and will embrace in the future.
Love,
Joy
A while back we watched the movie Loving. It's the story of Richard & Mildred Loving - the interracial couple who had the help of the ACLU to fight their case in the Supreme Court after being arrested in the state of Virginia for BEING MARRIED (a moment of silence for how especially f'd up the south has always been). Did you know that only in recent history (like the year 2000) has every state finally removed racist language from their state constitutions?!
For us, everything starts here; grateful to the people who came before us and made things like being different skin colors and still able to have a good and full life together possible.
I had a longass bio written that explains our life - why we moved from a place we love to a place we don't love but you know what? Scratch that. A new goal we have is to focus on here as home. Where we are, who we're with, for now... So. Forget about the lengthy bio. All you need to know is Angel is a born and raised by a single mom Dominican New Yorker and I'm a white all over the place-r raised by a mom and dad married for 42+ years. Merging our vastly different lives pre-marriage makes our married life together challenging as we grow, grow, grow. But it's real good for us.
Inez is our five month old daughter who, while very beautiful, is basically a stone cold baby B unless you're jumping, dancing, or speaking in embarrassingly high pitched tones. Or unless you're me or Angel. Her entrance into the world and everything that has happened since has changed my life forever.
After many people asking if and when I was going to start writing again (the true answer being that I already had), I realized... this is a time in our life that I never want to forget. I have NEVER felt like any one job has been the one I could do for the rest of my life. But this is my role of a lifetime; the role I get to consistently say yes to over and over again - on the hard days and easy days and in all the seemingly inconsequential moments. So this will be focused on my journey as a mother and wife - somehow trying to put finger to key on all the paradigm shifts and perspective changes I've encountered thus far and will embrace in the future.
Love,
Joy
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