Why is gratitude so very powerful? Because it keeps you connected to all the good things in your life. ~Ralph Marston
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Today I am grateful...
- for special remembrances of my mom, today she would have been 83
- for how she would pat our legs for the longest time--it was such a loving gesture--like she just couldn't show us enough love and wanted it to last
- for the little love notes she would tuck into my lunch (as an adult)
- for one of my favorite, but heart breaking memories, when ALS had taken away her voice and was depleting her muscle strength and I was about to leave to return to Texas. She took the pen and wrote in letters so childlike, I love you. Her beautiful penmanship swallowed up by the disease.
- how I once called her my first teacher. She told me how much she loved that.
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
7 comments:
I got all teary reading this. Your mother sounds wonderful.
What a wonderful way to be remembered.
Very sweet, Scott.
Nice...
I can only hope my children remember me as fondly. Thank you.
this is beautiful scott, sounds like a wonderful woman.
How grateful I am for you, Scott to have had a Mom such as your Bunny. She was awesome and of course she is still with you, in a different way, of course. Grateful for your memories, for your first teacher. Amazing, and thank you for sharing this with us. Peace.
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