I'll do a follow up on my blind friend-date soon but Sunday is Mother's Day here and I feel I should honor Mom in some way. Since we are not a gifts or cards or brunch type of family, here goes -
My mother is about as nontraditional as you can get. She doesn't resemble any parental figure you might see in movies or on TV or in books. She says what she thinks. She doesn't coddle or futz. And she can do build/sew/make just about anything and knows more about everything that anyone I know. I used to tell people she would read the dictionary for fun and they would think I was kidding but I wasn't. She does. Because my mother is awesome and different and not at all boring. When she was twenty-something, she met my father in school in Oregon and he asked her to move to Kenya and she "thought it would be interesting..." so she got a job with IBM, packed up her life and moved there, sight unseen. Because along with all the other abilities she has, my mother also has no fear. And by "no fear" I mean she's not scared of snakes or spiders or things that go bump in the night or of being a white American woman moving to an African country in the sixties to live with an black African man. And, when years later, things were not going well, she did not hesitate to move back to America and start over again - at thirty something with nothing but her two slightly traumatized children, three trunks of memories and no American work history. If she were a superhero, she would make her own costume, build her own lair and be perfectly capable of saving the world without a sidekick. And she would build that lair and make that costume and save that world using nothing but reclaimed and recyclable materials. In fact, I think the only thing my mother can't do is sing in key. And who needs a superhero that sings in key? Anyway, to my nontraditional superhero, Happy Mother's Day!
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AuthorMy name is ej. I'm a girl. I say that because with the short hair and the short initials, folks aren't always sure. More brilliant insights to who I am in About me Archives
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