Climbing Mother



Climbing Mother

Of course, it is a wonderful impossibility that babies could climb a ladder tall enough to get to their mother. But what Kershisnik captures is a mother’s abandonment of personal space when her children are young and their physical needs are great. In the everyday acts of parenting, mothers provide noble and continual service for gods in embryo, being sustained in their untiring efforts by God’s help from above.  (i do not know who wrote this)

I too have felt the sustaining power beyond my own in all aspects of my motherhood.

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Grandma Honey said…
That picture and those words capture mothering perfectly. Only a mother would understand it though.

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