My brother also liked to play sports. He played on the school softball team.
At the outset of summer when the school year ended, his enthusiasm for playing softball extended to the desire to attend a camp at East Carolina State University. The camp lasted two weeks and several boys from his baseball team would be going.
On telling my mother he wanted to go,
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A fruit of both the body and the soul, the spirit and heart, the pomegranate casts a net long and wide, deep and with breadth stretching into those areas of life perceived not with the eyes but with inner knowing that comes with age and experience.
The relationship between mothers and daughters is as old as humankind and time.
What could Persephone have been thinking when
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The Greek myth of Persephone centers on the relationship between Persephone and her mother, Demeter.
Demeter loved her daughter, Persephone very much. The story goes that the Greek God, Apollo, fathered Persephone by Demeter, Apollo’s sister.
When Persephone goes missing Demeter, quite distraught, searches every hill and valley to find her daughter and only child.
One can only imagine the multitude of emotions that flowed through Demeter.
The goddess of harvest and motherhood, marriage and the crone stage of female wisdom that comes with aging, Demeter led a life of holding her own amid her brothers Apollo (Zeus), Poseidon (Neptune), and Hades (Pluto).
Both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, stand at the center of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Initiation into the cult of Demeter and Persephone was said to prepare the participant to receive goodness and bounty in the afterlife that followed death.
Other beliefs held that those who underwent initiation would
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The summer has whisked by. One day it was May 31st and our middle was finishing what had been their eleventh grade year–they were a high school junior–and two days later we were listening to a message left by the school photographer stating that senior pictures would be made the following week and leaving the
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