Mother's Day Muse-ings
I have been very lucky. I have been surrounded by amazing mothers. I have known mommies who have demonstrated inconceivable strength, loved selflessly and transcended age, physical beauty and life itself. They exude a radiance that old age can never blur, a glow that emanates and shines not from whitening lotions or make-up (well that too!), but more with the kind etched with experience, wisdom and knowledge of loving and living. They have eyes that have hardened at one point from stress or disillusion, or sunken from lack of sleep as they kept watch over a little one who had twisted and turned from fever the night before, or from homesickness. They have a generous kindness that has sacrificed more than a masters degree or a PhD, sometimes even their daily presence among the very people they are working so hard for. The hard, coarse palms from years of doing the laundry (until the onset of washing machines, and only when it was finally affordable) and household chores, or the muscles f...