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On the Fault Line.
My mother turned 80 today, or so I was told. I have lost track of her age, as well of her life. She seems a mirage out on the far horizon, behind me…detached from daily emotions. But, I do know,… Continue reading
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God’s Peace
I was asked, "Do you love your mother?" And this is how I feel. I wrote this almost 3 years ago… “You are the mother you have been waiting for. When you focus on the mother, you become motherless.” Byron Katie… Continue reading
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Island of Love, Peace and Joy.
Today while writing my Morning Pages, I wrote that I am feeling more like a self I recognize. A self who feels normal being estranged from her family, that I no longer feel so odd to myself, this new me… Continue reading
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Kept this Pattern Going.
Being a mother in the middle and having a generation before me and a generation below me puts me in a great place to witness the intricacies of how relationships are formed and how the legacy is passed on. Being… Continue reading
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Until she can find her own.
The hardest part of being a mom is when your child takes an exit that you didn’t see coming and they seem to disappear from the usual landscape and it leaves you separated. And I am not even sure what… Continue reading
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In My Mother’s Eyes
Being in this moment of time and healing my childhood wounds requires me to make changes now what I was incapable of doing back then. It is like living in two places at once, or being a grown woman and… Continue reading
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Fear Moves Me Away From You…
My mother and I had lunch at the Pilgrim River yesterday. Unscheduled, unplanned and unseen. Five years have passed since I laid eyes upon her and she looks the same, dresses the same, and seemed her old self, not… Continue reading
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Keeper of their Illusions.
One more part that really stayed with me from Sickened by Julie Gregory. “I now feel ready to try and talk to a therapist again. Most times I do not feel like a client, but an educator who pays… Continue reading
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Fashioner
In a split second, you can go from being a little girl to being a mom. It happens so fast, I am not sure we even have the time to think about it. It happens to some and I believe… Continue reading
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