Wishing You the Mother Lode* of Good Things to Come...
*The real or imaginary origin of something valuable or in great abundance
This is a photo of my daughters and I on Mother’s Day in 2006. The day before, together with their dad, the girls and I dug a hole, surrounded it with a circle of paver stones, planted a magnolia tree, and filled the remaining space with dirt and wood chips. I thought I would live in that house for the rest of my life. It was my dream home and I loved it. We moved in when my oldest daughter was 4 months old. We moved out 8 years later in 2010. I went back last spring and asked the person who has been living there since, if I could go in the backyard to see the magnolia tree in its 17th year of blooming, as pictured in the top photo, whereas the bottom left photo is the first year after we planted it.
My friend Chris sent me a meme the other day that in part said “Don’t wait to start writing until you have something to say. Start writing so you can find out what you have to say.”