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mulwiler@... writes:


> JJ wrote:
> <<<<< The movie made me cry btw, but everything does these days --
> that's another story. <grin>
> >>>>>
>
>
> So, JJ, are you also having hot flashes? (and I don't mean of
> insight!) <eg>
>
>
> <<<<< but five-year-olds keep eating past that point. >>>>>
>
> School?
>
>
> Mercedes
> who has hot flashes and continues eating when full. . . .
>


Oh good, I wondered if it was just me! Yeah, hot flashes for sure, and
I've lost both my own folks now too.

So the part where Harry conjures up the Patronis just breaks me up,
the idea that we give life to and protect our children and then through them,
continue to touch others and affect the world for good (or for some
unfortunately, evil) -- I sat there with tears streaming down my face while my 14-year-old
patted me on the leg and said there, there, which just made me cry harder. I
got this flash of HER children someday doing that to her, and it was wonderful
and powerful and poignant all at the same time, and I wallowed in it. It was
a good thing.


But I must admit that foremost in my mind this spring is what I'm
finding about all kinds of stuff happens to women's bodies as we age, that no
care or conditioning or positive thinking can halt, and no amount of saying no
can stop, and I -- DON"T --- LIKE --- IT!! <g> JJ


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Julie Bogart

--- In [email protected], jrossedd@a... wrote:

> So the part where Harry conjures up the Patronis just breaks me up,
> the idea that we give life to and protect our children and then through them,
> continue to touch others and affect the world for good (or for some
> unfortunately, evil) -- I sat there with tears streaming down my face while my 14-year-
old
> patted me on the leg and said there, there, which just made me cry harder. I
> got this flash of HER children someday doing that to her, and it was wonderful
> and powerful and poignant all at the same time, and I wallowed in it. It was
> a good thing.
>

I just loved this. I recently sobbed my way through a high school sign language concert as
I watched these fresh faced teens performing with passion - conscious of the passage of
time and the way our roles change from new adult to young married woman to mother...

The Harry Potter stories speak to me on that profound level. To make manifest a mother's
love and sacrifice as a powerful protective force in the life of her child is something only a
mother would have dreamt up. I'm grateful to Rowling for that emphasis.

Nothing sappy or sentimental about it. The most real, most powerful force in a child's life.

Sigh.

Nice to start my day with that realization. Might need to post it on the refrigerator.

Julie B