Photo: John and Suzanne’s Mom.
Mother and baby sculpture at Mass General Hospital in Boston.
Sending love to all mothers today and to nonmothers who rise up in times of need to mother children. This year, I’m thinking particularly of those in the world’s trouble spots who do all they can to mother and protect frightened children. Wishing them strength and an end to the chaos around them.
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To you, too, Suzanne’s Mom. That is an incredibly beautiful sculpture invoking the simplicity and love and sensuality involved in becoming a mother. Hope all is well with you.
Thank you so much. The way the mother is sort of curled around the baby really speaks to me.
Yes. How do sculptors make softness from metal? It’s astonishing.
A lovely message for a day that engenders mixed emotions.
Mixed emotions indeed. Some people celebrate. Many feel pain at missing their mothers. Others’ troubled maternal relationships cause a different kind of pain. I think the important person is the one who does the mothering — whoever that may be, male or female, related or not.