Mother Song
Two and a half years ago my mother Jean received a terminal heart diagnosis. Since that time she & I became very close, as I helped support her to face and to prepare for her death, saying, doing and singing all the things I would want to do if I were able to be present to priestess her death but which was unlikely to happen. [She did indeed die alone in her own bed, of a heart attack as we expected, at Lammas 2015.] Of course this led me into preparing myself to lose her. Mother Song came out of our shared process and my anticipatory grieving last October. I sang it to her over the phone and recorded it for her.
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