Sunday, May 12, 2002

Sunday, May 12, 2002

Mother's Day

This is my third year to face this day with no living mother.   It didn't really bother me at all this year.  I just found myself feeling very fortunate that Galahad's mother is in my life.

I thought of my mom a bit when we were shopping for Galahad's mom.  I silently considered what my mother might have liked had she still been living.  [I wonder if that's healthy?]  I cried a whole lot more during her last few living years while she was really sick than I have in the 2.5 years since she died.  Her disease and subsequent death have given me a strange kind of independence and a lot more compassion to others.  Not that I really need the extra compassion -- I cried already when I saw others feeling hurt.

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