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Of Laughter, Joy and What I Would Like to Say to My Mother …

What is one thing you needed to have said, or need to say to your mother?

I would like to have told my mother that I was doing the best I could.

All the times when she was complaining about me eating all the cookies I wish to have had the insight to say to her, “I need some sweetness in my life.”

I don’t know how much it would have helped.

My mother did not possess the insight to have seen that she was sucking all the joy out of my life.

Her life

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Of The Silence of Mothers, A Daughter’s Yearning, and Gratitude …

Learning something about a mother, who was not forward in sharing about herself allows deeper insight into those hidden aspects of ourselves as her daughter.

The yearning to know more about a mother who has hidden herself, kept secret her inner life, speaks to our desire to connect, both with our mother and ourselves.

If our mother has died, like mine who passed on nearly two decades ago, we have lost a most direct line of knowledge. But all is not forsaken. Not by a long shot.

The very fact that our mother died keeping all close to her chest speaks volumes. It tells us that we

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Of Daughters, Secrets and Revisiting Old Terrain …

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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Of The Inner Child, Mothers and Compassion …

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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The loss of her sight has ignited a war between her two best friends.
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Six weeks after an accident rendered her blind Sahel married

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