‘There is a recurring pattern I notice in the main characters I write. Bubbling away beneath the main plot, is the tension they have with their mothers’. This is what I just love about your work. It’s been so healing to read and use as a vehicle to contemplate and come to new understandings of my own mum. Hope and Glory was so healing for me. Reading all that we’ve got as moving too for similar reasons. Becoming a parent, ahhh it makes so much sense! It’s given me a lot of grace for my mum and a lead to lot of frustration, grief and re-parenting.
There are things about my mother that I was simply too young to appreciate and growing older is understanding her more in her absence. It’s easy to pinpoint what I’ve learned from her, but the ways I feel myself becoming her still take me by surprise. There are times when my decisions are guided solely by doing what she would have done, and then there are the times that my conclusions are shaped in complete opposition. - THIS!!!
What a beautiful and profound read😍
Thanks, Yomi 💜
‘There is a recurring pattern I notice in the main characters I write. Bubbling away beneath the main plot, is the tension they have with their mothers’. This is what I just love about your work. It’s been so healing to read and use as a vehicle to contemplate and come to new understandings of my own mum. Hope and Glory was so healing for me. Reading all that we’ve got as moving too for similar reasons. Becoming a parent, ahhh it makes so much sense! It’s given me a lot of grace for my mum and a lead to lot of frustration, grief and re-parenting.
I'm so moved by this feedback – genuinely. Means the world. Thank you 💜
There are things about my mother that I was simply too young to appreciate and growing older is understanding her more in her absence. It’s easy to pinpoint what I’ve learned from her, but the ways I feel myself becoming her still take me by surprise. There are times when my decisions are guided solely by doing what she would have done, and then there are the times that my conclusions are shaped in complete opposition. - THIS!!!
You get it! 💜