Reflections on an evening spent with my beautiful daughter, in contemplation of developing relationships with both of my daughters:

"Yes it is more than nice....the way they love me...the way they look at me...the way that they know me...the way that they respect me....the way that they can tell me anything....the way that they wrap their arms around me and hold on...the way our minds and hearts are entwined and beating in unison...the journey that we have traversed together, side by side, hand in hand, even when we are not together, when we're busy living our own lives....the way that we continue to grow together exponentially. I am grateful. In the Learning to let them go in increments of now from a time so long ago, encouraging independence and individuality, teaching them to trust their instincts....baring my soul's turmoil, letting them witness and experience my falling apart again and again and again and again and then watch me getting up again and again while learning to never give up. Ever striving to be all that we can be, supporting each other through all of life's idiosyncrasies. Always believing in them, they believe in me. Trusting them, they trust me. Giving to them what I hoped to get from them. and here we are. Here we are. I revel in it, absorb it, cherish it just as I cherished caressing little feet while I nursed them, tucking the moments in nooks and crannies in my mind and heart, filling my reservoirs up with all this love. All of this I feel, hold near, so close, so true....mine. These are my treasures. These are the dividends to the investment of my heart, my time, my sacrifices, my losses, my pain. These are the results of the risks that I have dared to take in my belief in the greatest power; trusting of my own instincts...instincts deeper than thought, higher than education, wider than traditional wisdoms. All of this I feel in the beating of my heart, in the rhythms of my breath, in the essence of my energies as they swirl through me and pour out of me in an extension of the Love that is me."

Still, I have so much more to give....

I am grateful.