OK, so she didn't teach me how to clean the shower, but Mom taught me many things. As lessons are best learned, she taught these by showing, not telling:
A love of the out-of-doors.
How to make a fire and cook over it.
How to pack a bedroll if you don't have a sleeping bag.
To be unafraid of the dark.
How to read, and to love it.
To laugh at myself, not others.
Contentment.
How to change a bed.
And do laundry.
To let little things go.
How to be a good neighbor.
How to plant daffodil bulbs.
How to talk to a baby.
How to knit.
How to make potato salad.
How not to make coleslaw.
How to make southern cornbread dressing.
How to raise and love children
and
how to let them go.
Thanks, and happy 85th birthday, mom.
Wish you were here.
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