My mum turned eighty seven this week. Here’s a few facts about her. She was born at home, one month early, weighing around four pound. Four pound, is about two kilos. She had a difficult and dysfunctional relationship with her mother, eventually moving two hundred miles away, which at the time was the equivalent of emigrating. Still, back in those cold dark weeks of 1937 something must have gone right between them because there were no intensive care units then, for a tiny baby, arrived too early.
My mom is 93 and this hits so close to home. You are right about that river. We were too scared to ask her some things about her family and now her memory is fading.
Wow Cary, this is just so beautifully written. And that you wrote about her whole life in such a few words. Your timing, your details, the way you weave in and out of her story. This is just incredible. I got teary at the end too. Just wow. Thank you for writing this. I just discovered you and I can't wait to read more.
Beautiful tribute to your mom. I know that river all too well as my mom is 88 and in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s. Thank you for putting pen to paper and saying what a lot of us know in our hearts but can’t give voice too.
Wow that's such a beautiful picture of your Mum in her silvery suit! I really think you described her well.
A beautiful tribute and I love this line 'A river does not flow back out of the sea, time has one only direction.' Thank you ❤️
My mom is 93 and this hits so close to home. You are right about that river. We were too scared to ask her some things about her family and now her memory is fading.
Wow Cary, this is just so beautifully written. And that you wrote about her whole life in such a few words. Your timing, your details, the way you weave in and out of her story. This is just incredible. I got teary at the end too. Just wow. Thank you for writing this. I just discovered you and I can't wait to read more.
Beautiful tribute to your mom. I know that river all too well as my mom is 88 and in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s. Thank you for putting pen to paper and saying what a lot of us know in our hearts but can’t give voice too.