May 🌺 Flowers
Greetings of the day with thanks to all who mother — in the vastly varied forms that can take, the surprising graces it can be.
From the perspective of depth/soul-engaged psychology on the topic across cultures, time and geography, here’s a revisit…
That most ubiquitous archetype…
From newShrink Sunday Sampler 5.8.22: First Drafts, Supreme Leaks... and the Great-&-Terrible-Mother in Us All. (Some discussion is in numbered item 6.)
And from the depth viewpoint today…
Mining the gold in the shadow
Here’s a closing note of cheer with gratitude from friend and longtime former bank colleague Marty Viser in her characteristic spirit — and color palette! It’s for the many, many of us for whom this day can be hard, bittersweet or just more complex than perky-pink perfection:
And, that is all I have! Talk to you next week.
🦋💙 tish
… it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
— William Stafford, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”
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