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My mom is the best. Surely millions of people shall take issue with that, but I’m now convinced that this is so. At age 62 she has spent this year taking swimming, computer class, investing in real estate (on a budget), earned a peer counseling certificate, studied for and taken and probably passed the state insurance license exam…all this & I send all my dying houseplants to her place for rehabilitative treatment as well. I have a doctorate degree, but of course this is largely due to mom & dad. And this degree, can not render me as multi-talented, sunny and full of pure spunk as she is.
Not to mention being both a cuter and more kind hearted soul than I shall ever be. By now it’s fairly obvious Ben & I have the gloomdoom penchant for melancholy that comes from our other, more writerly parent.
I suppose I should thank mom for passing on this heart of a pansy that I grapple with. The side of me whose life goal is to be the best Alpha-bitch I can be, must reside with this generous-to-a -fault inheritance. Again, thank goodness for that giant softy or else I’d practically be certifiable Asperger’s or Schizoid.
Today we went to the Stanford Pow wow and sat for hours in the sun eating frybread and watching the gathering of all nations & listening to drums & singers that could only described with that over used term: Soul stirring. Or, makes you want to bust a gut and pound that drum with them and weep/farm/hunt/get that white devil…sigh. Any way, now I have photos of my ‘lil mum with some very handsome brown men wearing leather and feathers.
priceless.
Happy Mother’s Day to all.
I absolutely, deeply respect Moms. So much, I know I’m not nearly qualified to be one.
p.S. our only "baby" right now - the little dove chick I rescued when the cradle/nest fell, he lives! That closed eye, fuzzy white chick that I found at death’s door is currently a wide-eyed babe sprouting actual feathers; mom no longer sits upon him, rather now he nestles beside her.
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