Witnessing our eldest graduate college in May 2009 and then graduate school eighteen months later in December 2010 delivered me to a new level of confidence and belief in myself.
I realized that something of all I had done as a mother had worked in nurturing our eldest daughter into not onl
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I was born under the sign, Libra. The one astrological sign symbolized by an inanimate, non-living object, the scales, Librans I was once told, do not possess balance. Rather, we are searching for balance.
In that this
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Witnessing our eldest graduate college in May 2009 and then graduate school eighteen months later in December 2010 delivered me to a new level of confidence and belief in myself.
I realized that something of all I had done as a mother had worked in nurturing our eldest daughter into not only a good citizen, but one who had goals and plans for achieving those goals.
When after earning her graduate degree in
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The greatest challenge of having been my mother’s daughter was trying to please her and feeling that I always failed. My mother always seemed anxious and/or sad. She was always working.
And this was after she had come home from having worked as a teacher in the nearby elementary school. She made all my dresses and the pants I wore until I graduated high school and went to college.
She planted a garden in spring and harvest the vegetable during the summer
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I think we want to know about our mothers, so we can know and understand ourselves better.
The problem is that everyone has secrets, even we, daughters, hold them.
Often what we ask and desire of our mothers we can and are least prepared to give our own daughters.
How hypocritical.
Is this because we are difficult persons?
I doubt it.
We, like all other humans, are afraid.
But what is so frightening about sharing (age appropriately) intimate knowledge of our personalities with out daughters?
I do not believe we
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Knowing more about my mother and understanding her are two different things.
I wish to have known more about my mother. But that will not happen.
She died of gall bladder cancer nearly two decades ago.
Yet as a mother of three daughters I feel that I have come to understand her.
It is difficult
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by Rhombendodekaeder If I knew more about my mother I think I would not be so hard on myself. The little I know about my mother is based on her tough exterior. By tough, I mean her unwavering commitment to what she was doing, and the belief that the way she was doing it was
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