Thank you to all the nurturers out there, especially the Mothers.
Thank you to those who saw and appreciated us for who we were, and encouraged us to keep going.
Thank you to the teachers, the coaches, the scout leaders.
As we got older it was our friends, our partners, our first great supervisor who guided, mentored and challenged.
Yes. Thank you for the challenger that made us better by their critique.
If you are successful, you did not get here by yourself.
Today is a lovely day to say thank you to those who showed caring to us whether they were relatives, chosen family or passed through our lives at the perfect moment.
My Mother hated Mother’s Day. She called it a Hallmark Holiday. (If you don’t know what that is, Google it or ask Claude). That made it really difficult for her children who wanted to celebrate her and our own Mother’s Day. We spent many decades chasing her on that one. It got to be a game between my sister, SIL, and me – and the grandkids never got why she didn’t just roll with it. In hindsight, I think she just didn’t want to be lumped into a stereotype or judged for how good a Mother she was against some unattainable saintly standard.
Overthinking it? She got to choose how to hold her experience. As do we all.
Thank you to those who choose to be kind when they could have been otherwise.
Who drop the sarcasm.
Who look you straight in the eye and speak from the heart.
Who create safety.
Who are there for you when you cannot be there for yourself.
Thank you.
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