It was about this time last year when My Rebecca and I found out that my Mother had squirreled away a bank account before she died in 1999 that we didn’t know about.   It was significant in amount and timely in delivery.   It changed my life.   I had been blissfully walking Phil’s Camino without a thought of anything else.  Although Dr Zucker at Swedish Hospital always talked to me as if I were going to Spain the next week.    And I kept saying in response that I had no time and no money, how was I going to go?   But my Mother solved half of that.  So, thank you Mom.

It was only later in life that I really appreciated my Mother for all the things that she was able to do for our family.   Of course, that is only normal.  And it is only after her death that I have come to appreciate other things that were just as important but maybe more subtle that she did.  Maybe it took me being mature to understand the things that she did in her maturity.  Anyway, the older I get the more I understand.   And too bad that I didn’t get this earlier.   So, thank you Mom.

So, I guess what I am writing to you about today is to get with it and think, understand and appreciate your Mother.   Maybe tomorrow one of you won’t be around, perhaps.   Maybe it is time to say thanks while the opportunity is available.   Just a thought.

My mommy loves me
More than anybody .
You don’t see anyone else
Kissing me to sleep at night.’
Clare – age 6

love you, Felipe – aged 67