Director’s Message:
Greetings,
All this month we are celebrating, paying tribute to and honoring mothers. Amen? Not only our (as the elders say) ‘birth mothers’, but all of the women who have nurtured us, inspired us, and ‘tough’ loved us into who we are today.
By way of doing just that, I have asked our writers’ group to share some of their stories and memories of their moms. Their tributes will be posted in the “Tributes to Mothers” link on this page.
Here is mine:
There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of and remember my mother. She passed on in 1984, but her spirit is still here with me. I think about the times we spent together from my childhood through growing up ‘til her ‘going home’. Not all at once—different things at different times. But all with a warm feeling and a grateful prayer of thanks for having had such a wonderful parent.
I’m remembering, today, my mother’s smile and her voice. She was such a beautiful woman—high cheekbones, flawless dark skin, white teeth and jet black eyes that seemed to sparkle when she was ‘tickled’ (another old saying). My mother had a smile that could light up a room. Her voice was soft. I can hear it now. In all the years I had known her, I had never heard her raise her voice. Not even when she was getting after us.
She was such a nurturing soul that even now as I write this, I feel the warmth—her presence. I am so blessed to have had her as my mom.
Let’s remember our moms all this month and always. In the words of Shirley Caesar: “Love your mom now while you can, show her you love her, take her out sometime, give her now…Everyday (should be) Mother’s Day.”*
Always with love,
Della
*“Every Day Is Like Mother’s Day”. Find this song on iTunes or Amazon.
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