The Butterfly Knight

As a mother of two young boys, one repeatedly hospitalized with a complicated medical syndrome that threatens his life time and time again, I desperately want to define the role I need to play in the lives of my children.  As I strive to define myself I am haunted by an image from my childhood of the butterfly collections in my father’s entomology lab.  There, displayed on a table in front of me are a dozen beautiful wooden boxes with glass lids, handmade by my father. Each one contains the most unique, fragile, and exquisite jewels I had ever seen.  As I run my fingers gingerly over the surface of each box, pressing my nose to the glass, I see that each winged beauty is carefully and painstakingly categorized, organized, labeled, and pinned to a white background.  As this recollection pierces my heart, a shocking question begins to rise from the deep. In my desperate attempt to understand my impact and position in the journey of my two sons lives, have I painstakingly placed them in a similar box?  And then, from an even deeper place, am I in such a box?

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