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Thank you, Joyce, for this incredibly heartfelt post. I read a number of beautifully written posts about mothers and daughters yesterday, and this by far, was the one that stood out and remained with me all day. 💜

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Sue ... thank you so much for this ... it means a lot. Like so many of us, I've dug deeply into my mother story. It's a bottomless well ... and I'm finally getting to the gratitude for it all. many hugs, joyce

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I quoted you in my post this morning. Hugs back!!! 💜

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what an honor!

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No, the honor is mine.

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Wonderful post, I am blessed with having had a wonderful mother

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Thanks so much and may this day be filled with joy.

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I’m sending this to my children.

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I hope that prompts a loving response.

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I’ll let you know.

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Please do ... and may this be a joyous day.

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Wow, I have learned so much from you. You are a very good writer.

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Doug ... thanks so much. It's always good to hear from you and I think about you and Marcia so often and hope you are enjoying life. hugs, j

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A rare quiet moment gave me the chance to find this this morning and gave me, as usual, good food for thought. There is a big gap between helping to heal all sentient beings (as much as that would be a wonderful mission) and “We are all just walking each other home.” I’m exploring this gap and the bandwidth challenge it presents. I want to spread myself wider, without spreading myself thinner, but have not found the way to make that work. I love many and spend time with few. It’s a time of life when the reach and possibilities become shorter and smaller than before, but devotion and love run deep even in a distant space. L.

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Your wisdom and friendship is felt everyday and I am grateful for the times we get to spend in person. May this be a special day for a special mother. hugs, j

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What a beautiful post about a troubled journey. Your deep pondering and journaling have made you wiser, more loving and the incredible woman you are today.

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Thank you, Becky ... I am so grateful for friends like you who resolutely see goodness amongst the weeds. And, thanks the beautiful, inspiring quote. hugs, j

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Dearest Joyce, though the circumstances surrounding our origin story are different, our life stories have traveled many paraellel paths.

I actually didn't choose to become a mother (unless of course karma knew the only way to wake me up was to give me the responsibility of two innocent, divinely beautiful daughters). I actually had been told, after two ectopic pregnancies, that I couldn't have children. I was relieved -- what a disaster of mother I thought I'd be! Children deserved better.

And, though I created several disasters in my daughters lives, we survived, and thrive today.

My mother and my relationship inspired me to 'do better' and, to use the lessons she taught me, both intentionally and unintentionally, to become an active and awakened creator of the relationship I have with my daughters today.

And to do that, I had to learn to re-mother myself.

My journey to being my own best mother was circuitous, and at times terrifying.

But I am so grateful I took it.

I so appreciate you and your beautiful words and heart. I appreciate your wisdom, your beauty and your loving ways.

There are so many intersections and paraellel paths of your words today, and from those years ago, and the ones I wrote on my blog today - Thank you for intensifying the light so that I can see even deeper into my mother's heart.

Much love and gratitude for you.

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Louise ... thank you so much for your words and insights into your own journey. I'm so glad we've had a way to weave our stories together and gather the insights while so much geography separates. Your path radiates love and wisdom and I'm grateful for having been enlightened by some of it. hugs, joyce

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