Mother’s Boy (August 26, 2006) — Image by Joy
In the summer of 2006, we spent three months trying to get rid of a systemic infection that resulted from hip surgery.
Mother passed away on September 8, 2006, only a couple of weeks after Joy took this picture.
Everyone had convinced me that she was ready to stop fighting —
the pain was too much.
— kenne
*****
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
— C. S. Lewis
That is a lovely photo Kenne, I miss my Mum too. One thing money can’t buy is more time, yet most people spend most of their time chasing or earning it, instead of enjoying life. It’s a bizarre system we’ve chained ourselves too.
Life is all about time, and we would have nothing without it.
That C.S. Lewis quote reminds me of one by W. S. Merwin:
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Same thing got my mom Kenne. Like the quote too.
Like all of us, she was not perfect, but she was my mom, Willie Agnes Poe.