It’s all about Mum: how to make her smile and the advice she gives.
Whether you’re a child or a mother, you’re lucky to be both. Here are some thoughts for Mother’s Day.
Take her back to the place that made her. Every mother carries a geography inside her — a street, a garden, a coastline, a city — where she became who she is. Go there with her. Let her remember out loud.
Change the perspective and spend a day with your daughter to do everything she likes to do. You will understand her even better and it also changes your habitus.
She makes the best cakes. You know this with a certainty that needs no explanation. They deserve the most beautiful plate in the house — because some things should be presented as the treasures they are, even the little ones.
Find the accessory you associate only with her. The hat, the bag you have never seen on anyone else. Give it to her, deliberately, as a gift. Let her know you noticed.
Everything you know about getting dressed, you learned from her. From the way she moved through a room, the way she chose what to wear. Style, it turns out, is inherited.
There is a piece of clothing somewhere in your memory — a colour, a cut, a fabric — that takes you straight back to her. Find it. Hold onto it.
Ask her about her books. The ones she returns to. The ones that changed something in her. She will tell you more about herself in that answer than in almost any other conversation.
What did you learn from her for being a mother? Then ask yourself what you have carried forward — consciously or not. The patience. The precision or simply the love for art.
And remember: nobody in the world knows you the way she does. That knowledge is a gift she has been quietly holding your whole life. Make use of it.
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