A beautiful life

Going through my mom's things, I am learning much about her, and also about myself. One thing that stands out is the extra-ordinary friendships she maintained through happy and sad times, over many years. My mother didn't have any children until she was 42, but she did have a lot of love and nurture in her heart. So she poured all that love and nurture into her friends. For years and years, I have been trying to do exactly that . . . take care of my friends as if they were close family. Now I know why I do that, and from whom I learned. We never talked about that, but seeing her life and her love for her friends made that seem the natural thing for me to do.