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| William Perugini |
In today's Times, there was an essay by regular contributor Margaret Renkl reflecting on her turning 60 years old. One of the passages was particularly touching and in my opinion unusual:
...This is just who I am now, a person who looks exactly like her late mother, despite far more exercise and a far healthier diet. Besides, I loved my mother, and I love seeing her again in every store window I pass.
I do not think I have ever heard such a loving and positive expression by a woman about her mother. Usually, it's "ugh, I look just like my mother." So many women I know don't have such a fondness for the one who made them. All the "baggage" from growing up and adulthood with deep archives of anger, hurt, disappointment and worse. Tis a shame.
I would distinguish between the daughters who suffered from bad mothering, and those who loved their mothers but feel society's disdain for the appearance of older women.
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