Florence: Forgiving our Mothers
Today is my great-grandmother Florence's birthday. She's not alive to celebrate, she died well before I was born so I know very little about her. My last post was about healing from my mommy issues and that a large part of that was realizing my mom had mommy issues...as did her mother. So in this healing process, it felt important to know more about who she was. No one has any pictures of her hanging up, and didn't when I was a kid, but pictures of her do exist in the dusty old albums of our family so I went on a hunt to find some. I like this one. She looks like a great-grandma, and those glasses are fantastic. My family loves telling stories of cherished family memories, a majority of them feature people falling down come to think of it, but man do we have some good ones! Ones about family pet heroics. Crazy old relatives, funny stories from my parents childhoods that I've heard so often they feel like retellings of old favorite movies. The imagery so vivid at this po...