Wednesday, March 10, 2010
my mom the alchemist
When I was a young teen suffering from heartfelt pain, my mom said that my heart would be placed within the hottest fire, heated white-hot, removed and hammered hard, then plunged into the coldest of water. She said this process would be repeated, that I was being tempered. She said I had only two choices: to keep my heart open or to slam it shut.
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What a cool, insightful mom, George! I'm hanging on to those beautiful words to use with my kids as they work their ways through their teen years.
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