Aimee this prompt was so full of possibilities that I will need some time to digest which of the many possibilities I will explore first...as a prompt, it is rich beyond words. Thank you for being so revealing and what a photograph!!! Those hands are remarkable and take me in so many directions...
Thank you Patty! I actually changed the image. Felt like the hands were too much, too real, having a negative impact… Maybe having a 100-year-old mother is too far out of most family experiences.
I am obviously too old to judge the youngsters’ response to the hands…. I couldn’t grasp where the child was whose hand was visible between the older arthritic ones. 😳🤣😂
Aimee this writing of yours about your mother is gorgeous! “Ours was a covenant of frustration. We were each other’s but not each other. Connected but not the same.” And I will use this prompt to depict my fictional mother-daughter relationship which is difficult and complex, unlike my own real-life one which was sweet and strong, in which I was fortunate enough to always feel beloved. I wish you had had the same Aimee but writing our way through the pain is what we do, right? And will love to check out the essay you recommend.
Thanks so much Amy. I always think of you when mothers come up, how lucky you are as both a daughter and mother. For so many this relationship is fraught but that does generate writing!
Aimee this prompt was so full of possibilities that I will need some time to digest which of the many possibilities I will explore first...as a prompt, it is rich beyond words. Thank you for being so revealing and what a photograph!!! Those hands are remarkable and take me in so many directions...
Thank you Patty! I actually changed the image. Felt like the hands were too much, too real, having a negative impact… Maybe having a 100-year-old mother is too far out of most family experiences.
I am obviously too old to judge the youngsters’ response to the hands…. I couldn’t grasp where the child was whose hand was visible between the older arthritic ones. 😳🤣😂
Aimee this writing of yours about your mother is gorgeous! “Ours was a covenant of frustration. We were each other’s but not each other. Connected but not the same.” And I will use this prompt to depict my fictional mother-daughter relationship which is difficult and complex, unlike my own real-life one which was sweet and strong, in which I was fortunate enough to always feel beloved. I wish you had had the same Aimee but writing our way through the pain is what we do, right? And will love to check out the essay you recommend.
Thanks so much Amy. I always think of you when mothers come up, how lucky you are as both a daughter and mother. For so many this relationship is fraught but that does generate writing!