Happy Day of Celebrating Mothers! I hope all who have nurtured new generations of humans and nonhumans felt celebrated for their super power called Mothering.
Today’s date, May 13th, is a bittersweet date for my family and me. It marks ten years since the last evening my mother experienced life. She passed away early morning on the 14th. So this evening, while walking our dogs in a local preserve, I felt the sun’s setting a little more deeply than at other times. The dandelions in the preserve’s meadow have turned to seed, their heads now objects for making childhood wishes. They remind me of times when my parents would take the seven of us for picnics at a Chicago park on the lake’s shore. A particularly memorable picnic was one when we were wearing our new Earth Day celebration clothes my mom had purchased from the Montgomery Ward catalog.
Dandelion seed heads also hold spiritual meaning and symbolism. They represent resilience and adaptability. They offer a symbol for hope and how naturally creative all life is; just look at this perfect little globe of fluff that will deliver new life on this beautiful planet.
A Great Horned Owl watched over us as we walked the trail this evening. It sat on a branch undisturbed by the passing of two humans and their domesticated wolves. There is much here for magical thinking, and I’ll take it. Mom is communicating that she knows we miss her, but all is well, and that she is happy about the approaching arrival of her first great-grandchild, my first grandchild, my daughter’s first child; hope, resilience, and the persistence of life from the seeds we carry within us. These days of celebration are about acknowledging the joy we create for each other every day we have the breath to blow on dandelion heads. There is no guarantee that we will see a new morning.
Love you Mama 💕 ~ the child you named Patricia after your first doll.
Photographically.me 
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