Mother’s Day
Yes, I know it’s Mother’s Day – I’m ignoring it beyond this post; I hope you aren’t.
No, she’s not alive – it’s been a while now.
No, I did not have a “bad” mother nor a bad childhood.
Both her homes are gone, my old home is gone, the town I grew up in is “gone” – buried in suburbia.
It’s all a long way away both in distance and time.
It’s just another Sunday …
As everything, Mothers’ Day has two sides (one of my Mother’s favorite expressions). The good side of today is the memory and focus on one of the people without whom we would not even exist. Mine was excellent and I think of her almost every day. It’s hard to believe she’s been gone for almost 25 years.
It becomes that way. When all the ties to the past are only memories, and the familiar place that once was home is now occupied by strangers, the special day for your mother also becomes only a memory.
Don’t lose the memories. They’re still part of our lives. Part of us.
Haven’t lost the memories … but as Jess said above, they’re only memories – and there’s no point stirring up the dust of long gone ghosts. Too often.
“only memories”…that’s all any of us will be some day.
AZ, your comment about ground turkey got me to thinking. And that’s dangerous. lol
I’ve seen that ground turkey in the store but was never compelled to try it.
When I do go to the store I frequently buy from the deli section a half a pound of sliced mesquite turkey, for sando’s and I’ve also cut it up and pour hot cream of chicken soup on it, over a sheet of bread. I guess you could call it an open faced hot turkey sando.
I have McCormick;s powdered mesquite spice so it seems I could pound out some 1/4lb ground turkey burgers and dust them with the mesquite and plop em on the grill.
Don’t know how they’d taste but I’m gonna pick up some ground turkey next time at the store and give it a try. This might be a new normal. Or at least some variety. So thank you for the mention!
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