2day's mother's day and...

Mauro's in Peru...

On Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Kahlil Gibran

(yeah, I know but...)

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born."
Rajneesh


"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.
A child is a child.
They get bigger, older, but grown?
What's that suppose to mean?
In my heart it don't mean a thing."
Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

(same here really...)

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have
Robert Brault

(shhh! keep your voice down, he might hear you?)

"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.
What! Is it nothing to be happy?
Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long
Never in his life will he be so busy again. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

(still busy after all these years...skipping on stage, playing in a band, running around at work..and still happy!)

...and Mauro's in Peru
he'll be home soon...
Jonny Cola & The A-Grades

(soon!? still 2 months to go...)

(ta skype!! for making it possible not only to talk to my son - but also see him !!)

Photos taken with webcam