There have been lovely posts and lyrics about Mothers Day...Mothers Day in the UK is in March and so we were a few months ahead. . Ah MOthers......This is where I sort of came in to posting on the JMDL when there was a discussion about grief and Truly Madly Deeply....(was it really ony in January!!!) and I posted about losing my mum.
My mothers' body died on 19th May 2000. I say that, as I do truly believe, that however comfortable her body was to hug, however much the shape of her filled something in my horizon that I miss in the catch of my breath, however much I remember her careful ministrations of both love and caring, the body was just the means of transport for her soul and personality. For even as she has left my father and my sisters and brother and the grand children without her physical presence, she is there in all our faces, our rememberings of her, (whether they be of her total loopiness and mad logic or of her real kindness), and in her poetry, pieces of artwork, gigantic collection of books, and in the sense of her being still in the house she and my father created as out family home. She had a wonderful smile, and that is how I remember her most. I am thankful that I came home to that smile after school, saw it after the birth of my children and have it plastered over my face as I write this. I know I have been lucky to have had a mother like her. Lucy
