It's not that I have so little to say currently, it's that there is so much to say that I haven't been able figure out how to say it.
Today I do want to say that if my mother, Josephine (Jo), were still alive, she would be 103 years old today. Here is a photo of her at age 19 in 1935 at a gathering of family and friends at Little Bird Lake in Minnesota. Her mother died at home in 1936 of cancer. By 1937, her father, her brother, her sister-in-law, and her 3-year-old niece had left Minnesota for a new life in Southern California. Until she was 50 years old, my mother wrote poetry and short stories. She let go of her dream of being a writer in 1966 and turned her creative energy to the visual arts.
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Happy birthday to your beautiful mother. She was born in 1916, two years before a beloved aunt of mine, whom I have never stopped missing. I was lucky in a way to have more than one mother. I know well the feeling of not knowing where to start when there is so much to share. Just pull a thread, any thread. The rest will slowly follow. Love.
Oh, and Nina Simone's Here Comes the Sun was an anthem of my youth!
We are seeing the sun here too after a very very long and dreary winter. The light lifts are out hearts in every way. Love George Winston. We have some of his music on our play lists. Lovely remembrance of your mom on her birthday.
Your mother looks so delicate in this picture. I appreciate your remembrance of her. I am still struggling to do the same and my mother died 20 years ago.
I love your collection of "Here comes the sun" and I suggest as an addition Richie Haven's version live at Woodstock.
my son in law was a day sleeper when my grandkids were toddlers and so he kept the curtains all over the house closed all the time, even in the kids room and whenever I would go over and visit, the first thing I would do is open the curtains in their room to let some light in and sing that song.
What a wonderful series of Here Comes the Sun covers! I hope the sun has arrived for you this spring!
Our mothers...
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