(First published in May of 2016, this touching 'Mother' story returns to warm my heart once more)
The Thread Stone
The Thread Stone
Mother Metaphor
On Mothers day, a girl who reads our blogs wrote to Wendy Golden Levitt about what we mean to her. It was a very fond, wonderful and tender letter about her life and feelings, and made me weep. In one part, she told about collecting Mothers:
"i will collect many mothers. michelle, grace and you are my second and
third and fourth mothers. i love this a lot. collecting mothers. i
arrange what each of you mothers got in a soft bag where i keep my
special things. i put a flat rock from the lake with a different
coloured thread around it. and i write down black for my real mother,
orange is grace. yellow is michelle. blue is wendy. like that."
Inspired, I made this stone--giving Wendy three different blues because she shared the story, and I kept the birth mother black at the center, then yellow for me and orange for Grace Forest. I saw as I was wrapping the thread that some strands had drifted, which gave me the idea of braiding them all together!
Now We Are One
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May we be happy.
May we be free from suffering.
May our hearts be easy no matter what comes to us in life.
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