I’ve had the good fortune of knowing some pretty amazing moms over the years. The most amazing was my own. She raised six of us and a foster child. She also endured the most horrible thing a parent can ever experience in losing a child.
My brother spoke a great testament to her in the eulogy he gave at her funeral. He is a gifted speaker and writer.
"In a world full of mistrust, she trusted us. While she was clearly central to what we would grow up to be, she never felt the need to make herself central to our daily rhythms. She gave us the freedom to explore Mickey Pond, the railroad tracks along Rockefeller Road, or to go sleighing down hair-raising trails no modern parent would dare let their children go near. She did not make such choices easily. In giving us that freedom, she demanded of us good judgement and the resourcefulness to be safe…….
In an era where people deny their limits in the name of pretension, she acknowledged hers readily. She possessed one of the most prized (and rare) human qualities: humility."
j.j.h. 1999
To the moms I know:
When it comes to being a single mom, I can only hope that I have the wisdom to know that I don’t know. I don’t need to completely understand something in order to have a tremendous amount of respect for it.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY.
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