She does come home from time-to-time. Here she is two weeks ago in Hollywood - she made the adorable skirt she is wearing.
Miracles do happen.
I know they do by the times my children have listened to me and taken my advice, even when it is advice I sort of wish I hadn’t given.
It must have been close to six years ago if not more I told my then high-school-aged daughter, Katherine, that if I had it to do over again, I would carefully consider attending an all women’s college. “Women’s colleges create phenomenal women leaders,” I told her. I had to take the extra step and say, “And if I could go to any women’s college, I would want to go to Smith College.” After all, it is Gloria Steinem and Julia Child’s alma mater, not to mention Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s, Sylvia Plath’s and many other notable women.
She listened and is now in her senior year at Smith College, three thousand miles away from me on most days of the year.
Once I got to watch her perform via Live Streaming (and yes, I took still photos).
This year I gave her the advice to be sure to document her
final year at Smith because I wish I had documented my final year at college –
and actually all of my twenties – more carefully. I was calling to mind the
wisdom of Literary Granny Vita Sackville-West when she wrote “It is necessary
to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the
net over the butterfly of the moment?” If Vita were alive now, she would be taking photos and posting her status on twitter and facebook and more than likely blogging and vlogging.Yesterday Katherine posted on facebook, lamenting the extravagant number of photos she had taken at her final convocation in Northampton. I commented, “Bless your heart,” so she’ll know her proud Mom is once again stalking her facebook page.
Every day I marvel at the young woman she is continuing to become.
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday on September 6 in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different mixed media channels, especially if you are happy to know Mommy Bloggers live on when their children move away from home. :~)
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