Call Your Daughter Home

by Deb Spera

Experience in life can only be judged by the obstacles one has to overcome to get it.”

We live over and over in the happening only to be left with what’s already done.

Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.

“If you reach a point in life where it feels there is only dark around you, that’s ’cause there is. You got to find the light. A hole can be a haven, but you can’t stay in a hole forever. What’s dark must come to light. Every person needs the sun.”

A quiet place can still hold chaos.”