Mothers - a Conversation With a Daughter


"Mothers" - A Conversation with a Daughter 


In my 60th year I came to the conclusion that women are gods in their own right. Children worship and fear the power that pulses through their own blood to pin point in a waiting heart, along that road we all journey, happy or sad,  just exactly where home is;  

and if there is anything to be said of the strength mothers bare in victory or failure, it is this, 

we are the echo of our own mother’s dreams, good and bad, and that life never ends at all  - the door is always open, take that as you will. Whether we balk at the chance to confront ourselves through what waits on the other side of that door, or we rush through to embrace – 

the opening always begins through an entrance - 

and that, our mothers bore the pain to let us in, is the hidden key. 

You could say, you love or hate your mother. 
You could say, you believe or disbelieve your mother. 
Mothers are not far from God. Nor that different. 

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
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June 27, 2023 at 5:37 PM
The True Mother.
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June 27, 2023 at 5:39 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_true_mother_1165956
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March 19, 2023 at 4:25 PM
HOME.
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March 19, 2023 at 4:25 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/georgia_987719
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March 19, 2023 at 3:39 PM
For my daughter, Georgia. Love always, your mother. Xx
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June 27, 2023 at 7:31 PM
https://youtu.be/IdKihrhunok
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March 19, 2023 at 3:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dguz0IsCuKU
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March 19, 2023 at 3:38 PM
https://karenwoodall.blog/2023/03/19/supporting-mothers-who-are-rejected-by-children-after-divorce-separation
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April 6, 2023 at 4:37 PM
https://youtu.be/BCH5hJzimQw
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March 19, 2023 at 4:18 PM
https://parentalalienationeurope.jimdofree.com/pae/issue-2/the-impact-of-coercive-control-on-post-divorce-relationships-between-mothers-and-children/
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March 19, 2023 at 3:52 PM
https://karenwoodall.blog/2020/08/16/i-did-not-see-my-daughters-for-years-the-impact-of-coercive-control-on-post-divorce-relationships-between-mothers-and-children/
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March 19, 2023 at 3:38 PM
https://emmm.org.au/parental-alienation
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March 16, 2023 at 1:33 AM
"Home"/Depeche Mode.
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March 16, 2023 at 1:33 AM
https://youtu.be/0AxYYWLr7r4
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January 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM
A child with the ghost.
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January 13, 2023 at 3:13 PM
https://youtu.be/qhVXHWe1uec
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January 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/the_longest_conversation_i_had_with_a_ghost_1476177
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January 7, 2023 at 1:49 PM
"I put this moment here". Jig of Life.
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March 16, 2023 at 1:41 AM
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October 27, 2022 at 6:46 PM
"Cherish Armour"
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October 27, 2022 at 6:46 PM
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October 27, 2022 at 6:45 PM
"My Own Country"
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October 27, 2022 at 6:45 PM
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October 27, 2022 at 6:45 PM
"My Daughter My Nation"
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October 27, 2022 at 6:46 PM
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/my_daughter_my_nation_981098
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July 10, 2022 at 1:20 AM
Labyrinth and the Dark Heart of Childhood/The Atlantic, 2016
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July 10, 2022 at 1:20 AM
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/labyrinth-captured-the-dark-heart-of-childhood/489146/
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July 10, 2022 at 1:20 AM
https://youtu.be/z6DJmp21vcQ
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July 9, 2022 at 5:40 PM
An interesting concept; a worthwhile project. Yet I can't source whether her book was published or not. For Mothers and their adult children.
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July 9, 2022 at 5:40 PM
https://mothersapartproject.wordpress.com/2018/07/23/a-personal-introduction/
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July 9, 2022 at 5:03 PM
The Mother Load. And it's not Platform Nine and Three Quarters. FOR MOTHERS (and children) and general education.
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July 9, 2022 at 5:05 PM
https://mothersapartproject.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/maternal-alienation/
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July 9, 2022 at 5:04 PM
https://www.coralanikatheill.com/maternal-alienation-fact-sheet
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July 9, 2022 at 5:04 PM
https://angelzfury.wordpress.com/maternal-deprivation/
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July 9, 2022 at 5:04 PM
https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/110550/2/02whole.pdf
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July 9, 2022 at 5:04 PM
https://cwasu.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Working-with-Maternal-Alienation.Practitioner_Resource2.pdf
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July 9, 2022 at 5:04 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation
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July 8, 2022 at 9:55 AM
Love your write and pictures. There is no love like a mother's love. Love your ending. Not all mothers are loving, guess they did not know how to be a mother. Some hurt their kids. We learn from what we live good or bad. Have a great/blessed~~Day/weekend...........
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July 8, 2022 at 1:43 PM
Xx...indeed, a mother can be many things to a child. Most adopt their stance on role models. With regards to your comment below, the child turned away, rejected by her mother, very sad, it either shaped the daughter to become a stellar mother, or the cycle repeats through trauma. You can have very good mothers, and the child could rebel in the most negative way. Mothers and their children, a complex mystery for some and an intelligible journey for others. Perhaps I could understand a mother turning away a child, if she had been raped and the child unwanted, a product of crime, or incest (which in itself is a crime), child marriage (which should not exist at all, but does) ...then I defer to pro-choice, not pro-life and that is another political can of worms. But I am definitely Pro-Choice (as well as Euthanasia, with proven patient consent, being fully legalised), make no mistake of my thoughts on that current issue, for anyone wanting to entertain that debate.
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July 8, 2022 at 1:36 PM
A mother can be many things to a child. It is all about the child's life and the kids out come. I know a girl that was adopted. When she found her mother. The mother told her to never call her again. It broke her heart. I know a girl that was adopted. When she found her mother. The mother was very happy. It changed both lives for the better. Again, have a great/blessed~~Day/weekend...........
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July 8, 2022 at 1:07 PM
True, you make a valid point Paula. Some mothers through years of generational trauma are hounded and perceived to be abject failures as mothers, after birthing their child they commit maternal filicide, failing that they shunt their children into the social welfare system, say for example a boys home where the child is then subjected to all manner of abuse, including sexual abuse by adults who wave bibles in the air threatening all manner of dire repercussions for the child and of course, the child, fearing God, acquiesces to adults he/she should trust like they would God - for the child in its mind by then, perceives itself as having committed all the grievous sin/s, including the failure to be loved or wanted at all by its mother, let alone its father (if the child’s father exists at all in the picture). The raping of a young mind to no longer trust a mother, let alone women or society in general ensues. The same occurs to discarded daughters. It all begins with the mother.
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July 8, 2022 at 1:07 PM
Then there are the mothers who narcissitically imprint their perceptions and values on a child to strive to be something impossible, weighed against the value of a person they once loved and held in high esteem, failing to understand that person had failures and was not at all a victorious knight in shining armour or an unsullied virtuous Queen Regent, nor is that person anything like the child and the child will never be that person. One would think eventually they find someone who could love them, some find their way to incarceration, despite having found love, or love having found them.
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July 8, 2022 at 1:07 PM
Some mothers nurture and protect too much, trying to save their child from the previous generation’s trauma. It could be assumed they are narcissistic or controlling, they are just over protective. In the end, these mothers remember their own childhood and understand the act of letting go, is not abandoning, but a selfless act of liberation for the benefit of the child. The child in the end, like themselves will make up their own mind what a mother is and what a mother is not. The child will eventually understand whether a mother is a saint or not. More than likely they determine this after the mother is long gone, when they become mothers themselves and understand saints do not exist in the realm of reality. There are very good mothers that exist from the get-go, very good mothers, that whilst perceived as leaving too early, are always by their children's sides, unseen. Some good mothers do not leave early, they must always be revered.
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July 8, 2022 at 1:07 PM
Mothers are very close to God. They can be both tyrannical and loving in strong and strange abstract ways. They are fire and fury, loving and forgiving. They can give and take away. Their thoughts and words and actions can be a catechism for the child to return to in times of fear, or an albatross not to be shot through the heart with an arrow, but the wings to lead them home, wherever that may be they come to understand, it is not a place; but this is a story the child will write to live and learn themselves alone. Those that failed or missed their calling, are on roll call the next time around the karmic soul route, what goes around comes around. Mothers are the portal to all manner of worlds and dimensions, including hell and heaven. They are not all “Silver”. Some shine like gold.
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July 8, 2022 at 1:07 PM
There endeth the sermon for the day. Warm regards, Reverend Lovejoy. ---- https://youtu.be/0fk5m5Eh8gM
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July 8, 2022 at 2:52 AM
My Own Country.
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July 8, 2022 at 2:52 AM
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July 8, 2022 at 2:51 AM
My Daughter My Nation.
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July 8, 2022 at 2:51 AM
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July 8, 2022 at 2:42 AM
Cherish Armour.
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July 8, 2022 at 2:42 AM
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July 8, 2022 at 2:41 AM
Simone De Beauvoir / "The Second Sex" (Full Transcript)
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July 8, 2022 at 2:41 AM
https://archive.org/stream/1949SimoneDeBeauvoirTheSecondSex/1949_simone-de-beauvoir-the-second-sex_djvu.txt
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