Mother's Day 2022

First Quarter Moon Ode to My Grandma, and a lineage of mothers.

View from the window where I am staying.

Formerly titled “May 8/First Quarter Moon.”

My Grandma Glenna died last week. We had known her body was slowing down the weeks before I left and I feared that it would happen while I was gone.

And so it has.

Grandma has been a constant in my life. Her photos, which I just recently discovered, have been a new source of seeing through her eyes. The scenes she captured were familiar, of me and my sisters, of my children, of my wedding and lots of Christmases and grandchildren and their diaper changes. It has been so fun to renew that connection to her through the photos, her quiet ever-presence shown. She has been a model of how to live with love, within your means, close to and caring for the earth, while still having lots of experiences. She made it all around the world, even though she hardly believed it when you told her that in these recent years. “I did that?”