Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today would have been my mother's 83rd Birthday.  Time does indeed march on. 
This picture was taken at my wedding.  And she was 49 years old..her 50th birthday was just a month away.  I just knew that she would live forever.

"Now there is one thing I can tell you; you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now.  When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer.  Now you will often think of days past when you had her.  When you are used to this horrible lthing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you.  At the present time, this is not yet possible.  Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power..that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you.  Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more."
-------Marcel Proust

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