Those photos are links.
To get to the kinds of relationships being advocated here, a mom needs to let go of many things, two of which are the image of the person she wanted to be separate from her children, as though she didn't have children at all, and then get rid of the vision of her children as ideal mother-worshipping accessories.
We have been other places in the past.
We will be in surprising places in the future. *
Who you are, no one else can be.
Who you are now is not who you were before. Who you are today is not who you will be tomorrow.
Breathe and smile and step toward your future. *
You may pass through the same door again, but you will be different each time.
Where you are right now will never be exactly the same again. *
