My Mum

I've been teaching for 6 years now and I still get anxious.

"If you are nervous, it means you care" -- is the best advice my mum had for me this year. It's a mantra before I step into the teaching space.

Long may it continue!

Thanks Mum, for this and for all the other brilliant stuff you do : )

Tunring into my Mother

"...Your mother has charted these waters before you and has learned the hard lessons. And now we are learning them, finding ourselves choosing so many of her same paths. It's partly adulthood and partly our genes taking over. There's nothing to be guilty or embarrassed about: More likely then not, your mom was cool long before cool existed, and she deserves the credit. Soon enough, I hope to have kids of my own, and I'll wear my mother prouder then I ever have. I hope I can love them with the same tenacity and grace that she loved me."

 -- Rebecca Parker Payne
(From Turning into my Mother for Kinfolk Magazine)

photo: me and my mum.

Be Kind.

My mums only new year's resolution this year was to be kinder.
Be kind to yourself
Be kind to others
Be kind
Be kind
Be kind.

I think she's on to something....Nice one mum!
x

I know nothing

I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up

I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go

I know
nothing

but I am here to learn.

-- Shane Koyczan

(image: my mum's rose)

Happy Mum Day!!!!