The Card Aisle

I'm walking through the aisles at Target the other day and I glance over to see a large group of people near the card section. Then I remember. It's Mother's Day on Sunday and I don't have a mom here to buy a card for. I start to get sad and then I get weepy. I'm in Target and I'm jealous of the people buying cards for their moms. People I don't know. I see a few women my age or a little younger and I have this urge to walk up to them and tell them--- "call your mom, take more pictures of her, ask her questions, be there for her, love your mom". But, I don't tell them this. I am just thankful for the phone calls I made, for the pictures I have, for the journal she kept for me, and for the love I shared with her. I am so happy that I had a mom who was and is everything to me. Happy Mother's Day, mom.

My mom and me---June 1984