Dear Mom: You Are Missed

Today marks the 11 year anniversary of my mom’s passing.

When you look at the world through a calendar mind you mark time as days on a page, joyful vs painful years, and every breath you have taken between the time your mother died and now.

A friend sent a note her mother had written and said her mom was unconditional love. I had the good fortune to have had the same from my mother.

I became a mother a week after my own had passed and because this happened late in my life, the three of us were not together at the same time. I could not look back at my unknowing and speak more wisely, more lovingly to my mother about who she was to me.

Because Patsy was my mother, I was raised with the mother lode of love and to this moment it remains my solid foundation.

Ruth Patricia Virginia Thigpen Namer
12-28-1935 * 11-30-2009

2 Responses to “Dear Mom: You Are Missed”

  1. Mudd Says:

    Dearest Rachel…

    Always warms my heart to see you celebrating your Mom. She lives on in you, in Tin, and in all the ways you touch the World.

    Bless her.
    Bless you.

    Love & Hugs
    xox

  2. Rachel Says:

    Thanks Mudd – truly if I knew then what I know now I would have appreciated her up and down.

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