[Magdalen] pondering politics

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

There is a story in our family that when my brother Larry and I were tiny,
Mom one time confessed to her mother that sometimes she wouldn't bathe us
for fear she might drown us. And my grandmother wouldn't speak to her for a
week.

I never thought of it in a terrible way.  I thought it was hilarious, and
at Mom's ninetieth birthday party, I thanked her for not doing it.

Mom said a couple of things to me that at the time were quite hurtful, come
to think of it.  On the other hand, she DID a lot of things that remind me
of the mama bird who tears flesh out of her own breast to feed her babies.

And there were things I did that hurt her a lot, but she didn't dwell on
them.

Actually, I suspect we all do things we wish we had not done and fail to do
things we ought to have done, or sumpin like that..

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yikes. I am so sorry you had to hear that, Mike. And so glad she stayed the
> course.
>
> Sally D
>
> On Sunday, 10 July 2016, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > >>>As the wife of a man who could, just a few years later, have been
> > aborted,
> > I want to honour those who seek to preserve unborn infant life and who
> make
> > personal sacrifices to do so.<<<
> >
> > As the love child of a 12-yr barren marriage, my mother, not long after
> my
> > Pop died, in a moment of needing to vent, politiely told me in cold
> > language that, "You know, I considered getting an abortion when I was
> > pregnant with you."  Thanks, Mom, I said.
> >
>