
Our collective mother: Instinct
It is Mother's Day, and I am having coffee in a squat red cup, and dark chocolate with sea salt, and that will be my breakfast. We had a gathering yesterday, because Gabriel is a citizen now, and because we are suddenly all vaccinated. The yard is a disaster. I am of the attitude this morning that most of the day will persist in being out of control and unwieldy. Things will be messy and my children will blackmail me and they will win, and it may be Mother’s day but I will li