Ann

Craig's mom's name is Ann and she is a doll. I did get to chill with her ALONE as I wanted to. Craig sat outside and had a smoke while we women bonded. The funny thing is perhaps she knew somehow as I had asked about her to Craig a couple of days ago. She shared a several photos of the man she loves. She had told me a most fantastic story about how she and he dated him 18 years ago and broke up because of an argument. In the interim, he and she married others and divorced. However, her love of him she could not shake. He held special meaning to her. She did meet others along her journey of life, but he stood out in her heart. Now, 18 years later, they are together and he has Parkinson's disease. She loves him with all her heart, but stated that she notes a difference in him when they drive through his ex's town. His disease lets her read him. My hand cupping her's, I told her that if you love him accept him as he is and let it be. She started to tear and I came out from around the counter and hugged her with a firm hug that I had wanted to give her all along. Yes, I had been thinking of this woman as she is a sparkle: a gem. To see pictures of her and her man in their youth, I look at her now and a photo of him and do not see a change in face as she is young in my eyes. We were meant to meet and to join at this level. Yes I love her and I just found out her name today and only met her twice before.

She showed me a side of myself in revealing herself. I sit here and cry not in pity, but in sheer recognition of life and it's meaning.

Nix and I went out to dinner this evening and she gave me the greatest compliment a kid could ever give her mom. She called me a hippy.

Peace out! Living and making it REAL!

xoxoxoxoxoxo ~ Maggie ~ Wednesday, August 15, 2007 @ 10:45 p.m.
P.S.: If anyone gets a chance, do read A WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME by Marge Piercy (Author of Summer People) and perhaps you will get the feelings of love and hope about humanity and its possibilities. I am almost finished the book (started on 8/10/07) and dearly I wish to leap into the pages.