How To Love Forever

"When you are a mother, 

you are never really alone in your thoughts.

A mother always has to think twice, 

once for herself and once for her child."

Sophia Loren

There are grandmothers who have buried ancestral stories into the hearts of grandchildren.  There are mothers who have rooted trauma into the lives of the their children.  There are children who have found surrogate mothers to heal their souls, while surrogate children have filled the hollow womb of women.

Not all women are mothers and not all mothers are mothering.  Some have simply been a vessel to bring children into the world while others have birthed children to nurture and nourish.  There are grandparents raising grandchildren while mothers are absent. 

My greatest opportunity was birthing four children who taught me endless lessons and how to love forever.  My life evolved around raising these sprouts to appreciate colors, fragrances, and the richness of this earth. I did my very best to protect them and then to let them go.   They will blossom in my heart forever.