Comments on: revisiting the mother thing

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:46:07 +0000

I always seem to find your website in my dark hours when living is just sometimes more than I can bear. Everytime i get here you lift my soul and gladden my heart.
My children, like yours are grown and gone. I always felt that my job was to prepare them for life after me.As my daughters get older I wonder a thousand times if I should have been kinder, better, more understanding.Sometimes they are angry because I couldnt give them all they needed.Being one parent is soo very hard especially if you must write and you must play music. My sons are more gentle than my daughters.
Lately I have the urge to just run away and pretend I am not their mother. I still feel guilty about saying “No” I dont want to cook Christmas dinner, I cant babysit or I need to be alone.
THAnk you for sharing this truth .

By: phee

phee — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:26:46 +0000

Thank you, Mercedes, for your tears, I feel blessed and honoured by your response. And yes, I had a feeling of speaking for more than just me. That’s when I know that what I write is ‘true’. This is a wound held in common by many mothers.

And ultimately, I understand that it is I who need to honour the / my feminine, this is where it begins.

By: Mercedes

Mercedes — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:00:35 +0000

Holy Moly Phoenix, the tears are streaming. It’s not you, it’s me, it’s my mother, it’s my sister, how wonderfully you express it all. You are gifted. I wonder did you read the numerology excerpt I mailed out. I can’t imagine that you be a scoffer but ?? It refers to the times and need for getting our “home” base immediate family relationships functioning again. Not to diminish what you personally are experiencing but I could easily have written this but for lack of the artistic ability and a couple of words I barely understood:).. just that sense that as mothers we’re aren’t truly appreciated and, but I liken it to an overall lack of the feminine being honored PERIOD…as in the myriad ways we have attacked and defiled our Mother Earth and all things feminine…to me there is no separation. Even admitting we have not honored the screaming banshee and allowed or been in collusion with, our young men and now women, our very own children, sent off to wars we don’t even want in our lives.The oneness is evident. I’m overflowing and so is my bathwater:):) Love you Lady of the Dark Scorpio Moon and your offerings, and probably your offspring because I’m guessin’ like me they turned out wonderful, and I too await the day when THEY and All That Is re-cognize this as well, ~ hugs, Mercedes

By: phee

phee — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:02:44 +0000

Ah… I see, practically the whole thing could be a poem. Is that what you mean? I didn’t really intend it as such, but I suppose truth wants to be poetic.

By: phee

phee — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:48:34 +0000

um thank you … what’s the poem section? I mean, besides the obvious one that’s already in verse form?

By: Greensera

Greensera — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:04:41 +0000

I would love to see a copy of the poem section arranged in verse form…it’s really brilliant, along with the outrageously cool pictures, along with the agonizing truth of the whole subject matter.