I have a guest blogger today…. My birth mother Johanna….
I laughed out loud last night when I read about the Coriolis Socks you were knitting.
On a late summer’s day in 1969 your father, who was then a very self-assured
graduate student at Boston University thought he would show off his superiority
over a lowly high school graduate, me, by asking me a question about a scientific phenomenon.
I answered his question correctly, which absolutely astounded him.Neither one of us
had any idea on that day that you would make your entrance into the world the following May.
After that day, we didn’t see or speak to each other for 28 years.
On August 16th, 1997 , I accidentally came upon his email address
and sent him the following note without signing it:
” The last time I saw you, I was sitting on your lap in your father’s office and you were
asking me some lame geology question”
Two days later on August 18th, the 28th anniversary of your conception,
I recieved the following reply:
” Was that the question about the Coriolis Effect?”
Three months later you called me. I heard a voice that I had longed to hear for 28 years.
How fitting it is that you would knit Coriolis socks.
You are the “yarn” that bound us all to each other,
and your heart forms the pattern that keeps us close.
Thank you, especially on Mother’s Day, for being the wonderful
daughter that you are.
No.. thank you!! For being a great Mother and making sure I had what I needed even though it wasn’t necessarily what you wanted… and I know it wasn’t easy! Happy Mother’s Day!
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