We may be attachment parents, or free range parents, or helicopter parents or just parents who are a jumble of many things and not a fan of labels, but as long as we love our children, we provide for them, and look after them and do our utmost to make them healthy and happy then who is to say we are bad parents by the choices we make?
It is a jumble of all these things that we hope, are choosing to hope, will lead us to a child, our child.
American art benefits from the fanatic, as American writing does not: the visual arts threaten to disappear back into the big jumble of things we see and own unless they are marked by some kind of extremism.
Such Ideas make each particular thing the kind of thing it is, and it is the apprehension of these abstract Ideas, in their pure universality, that enables the soul to bring order into the chaotic jumble of things and processes in the world.
Cucumber granita aside, they're just about the freshest thing I can imagine: a jumble of crunchy raw vegetables, soft, aromatic leaves and cool, squidgy noodles, all stuffed snugly into a featherlight rice wrapper.
Every deployment was such a jumble of sensory detail and emotions, and there's real satisfaction in bringing things together.
Most pieces have been a jumble of confusion trying to sort out whether this was a bad thing because it belittled the people employed, or a good thing because it employed them.
Under its leader, Mr. Arafat, is a jumble of rival security agencies and the Tanzim militia, recreating the anarchic way he used to run things in West Beirut.
Or a jumble of broken glass.
But it is also a jumble of contradictions.
