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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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We’re not encouraged to say, “I’m sorry,” in America, even when we are wrong, have made a mistake and our mistake has injured another, and or even ourselves.
I’m always taken with how much we often count the need to forgive ourselves for past mistakes when discussing those for whom we would do well to hold compassion.
It’s as if American societal beliefs hold to an erroneous myth that life can be somehow lived in a clear and uninterrupted straight line, that we can avoid any and all detours, those erected by others and those we might take should events become too complicated.
From where did we get this belief, never mind how faulty?
The degree to which we claim to be a progressive society
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Writer, Amy Glass, says “I Look Down on Young Women With Husband and Kids, and I’m Not Sorry.” Statments in the comment section underneath her article range from I Feel Sorry for Amy Glass … to I Look Down on People Like Amy Glass and … .
When I first saw the title I could not believe my eyes.
Someone was finally saying what we have been taught as Americans and that most of us truly believe.
As a mother of three daughters, ages 26 yrs, 21 yrs. and 14 yrs., and who for the last fourteen years has been a stay-at-home mom, I find Amy Glass’s statement
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There are so many questions I would have loved to ask my mother before she died, and listened to her answers.
My mother died when I was 36 yrs. old. Not that I’m a sage at 53 years old, but I did not know anything of what I have learned in the nearly twenty years that have come and gone since she transitioned from this life into what lies next.
It would have been helpful to listen to her describe what she loved most and expound on that. Knowing what brought her the greatest joy, I feel, would have offered a great path to discovering what brought her the most pain.
My mother was not
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Divya’s Review of Seasons in Purdah @ Goodreads.com
5 of 5 stars *****
Read from February 03 to 07, 2013
Feb 28, 13
“The dreamer is any and everything in their dream, but what if other people have experienced the same dream, shared the experiences with you?” Just a couple of days or so before I read Seasons in Purdah I was having a conversation with a friend about out of body experiences and dreaming. I was telling her how a dream is an out of body experience. And she asked, ”So if you are dreaming about me, and it is indeed an experience, then I must experience it too …” and then we were wondering that perhaps people do have the same dreams.
Seasons in Purdah is a metaphorical journey of
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