Thank you, Christy - you are not alone in missing that Mom of yours. I, too, feel it especially this year. Mothers negotiate all the difficult nuances of raising children and they do this with grace, with humor, and often while privately fatigued themselves. Thank you for sharing your photograph of your Mom. Full of light! She very much lives on in you. Thich Nat Han had to leave his mother behind when he fled his country. He was grieving at this parting moment and she said to him: “Open your palm. Look at it. Wherever you are, do this, and you will see me.” We carry our Mothers inside of us, as surely as they once carried us.