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​blog: You'll Never Be Quite the Same

A day with Mom and Dad

5/25/2020

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            All this unaccustomed gardening time summons thoughts of my mother. I channel Mom as I plant red geraniums in big pots. I think of her while I browse Sprague’s nursery and bring home a rhododendron. My childhood home abounded in rhododendrons. Mom taught me to snap off the gone-by blooms. When I picture Mom in summer, she is tending roses, weeding, edging, digging, planting, or snipping blooms to arrange in vases around the house. Is this new affinity for gardening a sign of age or wistfulness?
            Jonathan says I also remind him of my dad, because my face gets so bright red and sweaty. Sometimes I wonder if that’s rain on my neck, but no, just me.
            There they both are – in me, with me, around me. It was a good Memorial Day.
 

My 60th year in 60,000 words
Day 272: 133 words, TOTAL = 45,935; 14,065 remaining


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    Robin Clifford Wood is an award-winning author, poet, and writing teacher.  She lives  in central Maine with her husband, loves to be outdoors, and enjoys ever-expanding horizons through her children, grandchildren, and granddogs.

    To read about the "60th year in 60,000 words" challenge, go to the August 27th blog post. 
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