A Mother Who Is Obsessing

The Vulnerability Of Opening Your Heart Fully And Deeply To Another Is Terrifying, But At A Point In My 50s, I Realized That I Had To Step Up To The Plate.

Ultimately We Must Concern Ourselves With Pulling Out By Its Roots The Decadence That Controls Our Culture, The Profit Motive That Controls Our Culture.

I'm Vain. My Arms Are Thin, But I'm Vain About Loose Flesh. And So I'm Careful That What I Wear Will Show Off My Best Parts, Which Are My Waist And My Butt.

I Will Go To My Grave Regretting The Photograph Of Me In An Anti-aircraft Carrier [actually, It Was In An Anti-aircraft Gun Emplacement, Not A Carrier], Which Looks Like I Was Trying To Shoot At American Planes. [actually, That Was Her Intention In Posing For The Photograph The Way She Did.] It Hurt So Many Soldiers. It Galvanized Such Hostility. It Was The Most Horrible Thing I Could Possibly Have Done. It Was Just Thoughtless.

One Part Of Wisdom Is Knowing What You Don't Need Anymore And Letting It Go.