Your parents’s story made me well up. Your strong mother reminded me of mine whose life story I started to write. The generation who lived through the upheavals of colonial changes and horrors of WW2 have so much to teach us. Sadly, complacent generations who didn’t live through such trauma cannot see the urgent calls of ‘never again’.
This is a very fine piece of writing - moving without being sentimental, generous without being sanitised, and personal without being self-indulgent. Chris G.
Thank you Matt - beautifully written and provides a context for your writing.
And as you wisely say, 'sometimes you learn things because of your parents, and you also learn things in spite of them'. If we reflect, we can all probably relate to that.
Very poignant Matt - my condolences.
Your parents’s story made me well up. Your strong mother reminded me of mine whose life story I started to write. The generation who lived through the upheavals of colonial changes and horrors of WW2 have so much to teach us. Sadly, complacent generations who didn’t live through such trauma cannot see the urgent calls of ‘never again’.
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To have a son who writes such an impressive eulogy about his mother.
This is a very fine piece of writing - moving without being sentimental, generous without being sanitised, and personal without being self-indulgent. Chris G.
Brilliant - spoken from the heart.
Well put - lovely piece.
Very moving. Thank you Matt
Thank you Matt - beautifully written and provides a context for your writing.
And as you wisely say, 'sometimes you learn things because of your parents, and you also learn things in spite of them'. If we reflect, we can all probably relate to that.